as in heirs
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 inheritors
Over the next 25 years, more than $120 trillion in wealth will be passed down to inheritors, according to Cerulli Associates.
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Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 16 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
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
In reality, what felled her was not just one gangster’s greed but an entire organization’s—the inheritors of Rothstein’s operation—zeroing in on a mom-and-pop, or at least a mom, business, as big enterprises always do.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 16 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
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
In reality, what felled her was not just one gangster’s greed but an entire organization’s—the inheritors of Rothstein’s operation—zeroing in on a mom-and-pop, or at least a mom, business, as big enterprises always do.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inheritors
heirs
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Brown and O’Neill cast themselves less as Sandberg’s heirs than as her apostates.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Those market fluctuations have not impacted the museum, which acquired many important pieces when they were originally made, and later received donations from artists or their heirs.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Inheritors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inheritors. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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