as in heir
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 inheritor
The initiative positions Arkansas as the sole inheritor and national administrator of the fund.
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Sydney Sasser, Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2025
Yet with so much information—and so many competing voices—many inheritors won’t know where to begin.
—Massy Williams, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2025
While families that own large companies used to expect or even require their kids to take over the family businesses, many of today's next-gen inheritors want to forge their own path.
—Robert Frank, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
Although San Francisco was the inheritor of a distinctly American brand of social liberalism, tech elites were countercultural (in the sense that the more conservative ones cast their politics as a rebellion against the woke mainstream).
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
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
Though the gardens honor the full Calder lineage, their focus is on the twentieth-century inheritor.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 15 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inheritor
heir
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Motier Ventures, one of the most active family offices per Fintrx’s data, was founded by Guillaume Houzé, the 44-year-old, fifth-generation heir to French department store chain Galeries Lafayette.—
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Still, the predominant image of Levi Strauss heir Lurie is that of an earnest problem solver blending private sector agility with an ability to experiment with public policy.—
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“Inheritor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inheritor. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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