as in inheritor
a person who has the right to inherit property
upon his death, Mr. Parkworth's property was divided evenly among his heirs, four sons and three daughters
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Recent Examples of heir
Johnson, the Jets’ owner, is the son of a billionaire heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical empire.
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Mike Sando, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Harkness inherited the estate after the 1954 death of her husband, Standard Oil heir William Hale Harkness.
—India Roby, Architectural Digest, 15 Jan. 2025
While Succession was an ensemble that often focused on the Roy siblings, the action all spun around what Brian Cox was doing as Logan, a senior whose refusal to cede power to the next generation echoed for plenty of viewers who are not heirs to a media empire.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
William, heir to the throne, had expressed a strong desire to fly with his entire family.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Mike Sando, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Harkness inherited the estate after the 1954 death of her husband, Standard Oil heir William Hale Harkness.
—India Roby, Architectural Digest, 15 Jan. 2025
While Succession was an ensemble that often focused on the Roy siblings, the action all spun around what Brian Cox was doing as Logan, a senior whose refusal to cede power to the next generation echoed for plenty of viewers who are not heirs to a media empire.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
William, heir to the throne, had expressed a strong desire to fly with his entire family.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heir
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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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Humans, as legatees of this heritage, learn by seeing and visualizing.—
Stephen Jay Gould,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
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Justice Jackson herself is a descendant of enslaved people.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
20 Jan. 2025
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Through the lens of a journalist and descendant, Hawkins not only reclaims his family’s history but also confronts the lingering effects of intergenerational trauma, showing that healing is an act of defiance in itself.—
Marybeth Gasman,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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Nespresso’s latest campaign stars George Clooney as a detective tasked with uncovering the thief who stole the brand’s colorful coffee capsules from an heiress — and Eva Longoria plays one of the prime suspects.—
Erin Clements,
People.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Celebrity hotel heiress Paris Hilton learned from watching KABC-TV that her Malibu home, where her son had taken his first steps, had burned.—
Laura J. Nelson,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Heir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heir. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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