inheritors

plural of inheritor
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 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
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heirs
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  • In 2019, the Gusman family heirs sued the city to reclaim ownership of the property, arguing that a reversion clause in the deed had been triggered when the Miami Parking Authority stepped back from managing the building.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Colonial repression and factionalism divided nationalists and left them fighting bitterly over who were the true heirs to the March First Movement.
    Kornel Chang September 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Inheritors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inheritors. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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