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succeeder

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as in successor

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Newsom pledged that his final budget would not only close the chronic deficit but leave his successor — presumably Xavier Becerra — with a healthy fiscal situation.

— Dan Walters, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
Even if the next emanation is discovered within months, Tibetans face a perhaps two-decade interregnum while his successor comes of age.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 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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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
Harry and the six other high-profile claimants failed to prove their allegations that the publisher unlawfully obtained private information through methods including private investigators, deception, phone hacking and corrupt payments.

— Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 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

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Swift's representative confirmed that the actor-comedian officiated the July 3 ceremony at Madison Square Garden.

— Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 July 2026
Some states chose not to send representatives; several of them cited disagreements with the partisan mission.

— Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 3 July 2026

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Mojtaba Khamenei, Khamenei’s son and expectant heir, is notably absent.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2026
The Prince of Wales sadly won’t be attending Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s wedding Friday in New York City, but the heir to the British throne nonetheless made sure to offer some royal prestige to events.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 July 2026

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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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Bipartisan oversight and means testing for higher income beneficiaries can also help extend solvency without burdening working families.

— Brent Andersen, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026
Security analysts and world leaders alike have highlighted that Ukraine increasingly has something to offer allies and shouldn’t be seen as a mere beneficiary of military support and donations.

— Sam Meredith,Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 9 July 2026

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