as in heirs
a person who has the right to inherit property
someday that little boy will become the inheritor of one of the largest private fortunes in the country
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Recent Examples of inheritors
Yet with so much information—and so many competing voices—many inheritors won’t know where to begin.
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Massy Williams, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2025
While families that own large companies used to expect or even require their kids to take over the family businesses, many of today's next-gen inheritors want to forge their own path.
—Robert Frank, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
This is challenging, in part because loneliness is such a familiar theme in the 21st-century Indian American novel (blame Jhumpa Lahiri and her literary inheritors).
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
The very idea of an alliance will be strange and scary to the inheritors of the Non-Aligned Movement, which India helped spearhead during the Cold War.
—Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2025
In reality, what felled her was not just one gangster’s greed but an entire organization’s—the inheritors of Rothstein’s operation—zeroing in on a mom-and-pop, or at least a mom, business, as big enterprises always do.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Massy Williams, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2025
While families that own large companies used to expect or even require their kids to take over the family businesses, many of today's next-gen inheritors want to forge their own path.
—Robert Frank, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
This is challenging, in part because loneliness is such a familiar theme in the 21st-century Indian American novel (blame Jhumpa Lahiri and her literary inheritors).
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
The very idea of an alliance will be strange and scary to the inheritors of the Non-Aligned Movement, which India helped spearhead during the Cold War.
—Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2025
In reality, what felled her was not just one gangster’s greed but an entire organization’s—the inheritors of Rothstein’s operation—zeroing in on a mom-and-pop, or at least a mom, business, as big enterprises always do.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inheritors
heirs
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Even so, millennial and Gen X heirs are continuing to make their mark through their family offices.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
8 Jan. 2026
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Normally, heirs filing wrongful death suits can claim only their own loss.—
Tony Saavedra,
Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Inheritors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inheritors. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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