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succeeder

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as in successor

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His successor will be Ukraine’s fifth defense minister since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
Competing visions The nationalists were members of the Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia in the Summer of 1787 to draft the successor to the articles, the United States Constitution.

— Donovan Fifield, The Conversation, 16 July 2026

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The former One Direction star's son Bear, 9, is the sole inheritor of $29,007,998 from the singer's estate.

— Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
Among these delusions is the perennial faith that Iranians are potentially ardent converts to American-style freedom, rather than inheritors of an ancient civilization with a trajectory outlined by its own specific history.

— Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026

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Now, the claimants may be on the hook to pay the legal costs, which ANL has said climbed to $67 million.

— Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 9 July 2026
On July 7, the Duke of Sussex and a fellow claimant, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, issued a scathing statement following a judge’s dismissal of their case against the Daily Mail’s publisher, Associated Newspapers Limited, which was filed in 2022.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 7 July 2026

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Messi, ever the showman, scored a stunning hat trick—his first ever in a World Cup—for the 3–0 win, and was subbed out in the seventy-ninth minute for Nico Paz (suggested by some to be his heir apparent), to a standing ovation.

— Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
An heir apparent to Draymond Green.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 June 2026

Definition of heir apparent

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The representative then asked for an explanation for why that much water was needed.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2026
The superstar couple wed in a ceremony on July 3, which was officiated by actor and comedian Adam Sandler, a representative for Swift confirmed to ABC News at the time.

— Mason Leib, ABC News, 10 July 2026

Definition of representative

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The old immigrants are likely to remain—in the manner of the occasional Wasp legatee (Wagner, Lindsay) who poked in during the buoyant sixties—more visitors to wars over civic power than victors in them.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.

— David Jackson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024

Definition of legatee

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The firm also likes artificial intelligence beneficiaries for equity allocations across its portfolios.

— Michelle Fox, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Haitian officials were told that those onboard Thursday’s flight were TPS beneficiaries but were given no information to verify that.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026

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