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Trump could name Powell’s successor as soon as this week.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026 -
His successor, Jacques Chirac, briefly abolished it in 1986, but Mitterrand expeditiously revived it in 1989 upon his return to office.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
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After the world’s nuclear annihilation, the Enclave emerged from the ash and embers claiming to be the true inheritor of America.—
Jack King,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2026
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The initiative positions Arkansas as the sole inheritor and national administrator of the fund.—
Sydney Sasser,
Arkansas Online,
19 Dec. 2025
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Some claimants alleged the Google devices recorded private conversations about financial issues, personal decisions and employment.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Hanoi also is balancing ties with major powers including China, its largest trading partner and rival claimant in the South China Sea.—
Aniruddha Ghosal,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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Persico, 62, was the heir apparent to the crime family in 2023 when he was sentenced to five years behind bars for a labor union extortion plot.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2026
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For much of the past year, National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett appeared to be the natural heir apparent.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
20 Jan. 2026
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The first team meeting included greetings by several athletic department representatives, from the administration and academics to the equipment and training rooms to strength and conditioning.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Conservative bloggers, talk-radio hosts, and cable networks invited a small and vocal contingent of white South Africans—sometimes people associated with Orania, sometimes representatives of lobby groups for Afrikaner interests—to bear witness to a specific version of this transition.—
Eve Fairbanks,
The Dial,
27 Jan. 2026
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Prince Baelor Targaryen, King Daeron’s eldest son and heir to the Iron Throne, is among the Targaryens who arrive in Ashford in Episode 2.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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The heir to the throne, Princess Amalia, wore it for the first time on the occasion of the state visit of the Sultan of Oman, a reminder that the item would pass, eventually, to the future queen.—
Marta Martínez Tato,
Vanity Fair,
25 Jan. 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
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Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.—
David Jackson,
USA TODAY,
8 Sep. 2024
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Blue Hummingbird Woman was an early beneficiary of the Grow Downtown program, a collaboration between the Downtown Alliance and building owners to place small businesses in vacant storefronts for six months with free rent.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
11 Jan. 2026
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The other primary beneficiary in the Citgo sale is oil giant ConocoPhillips, which holds more than half of the creditors’ roughly $20 billion in claims.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Succeeder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/succeeder. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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