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claimants

noun

plural of claimant

as in heirs

formal a person who believes that he or she has a right to something (such as an amount of money); a person who claims something They are claimants to their father's estate. Claimants will need to fill out the appropriate paperwork. a dispute between two claimants to the throne

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Recent Examples of claimants But critics of the system argue that the rise in disability and incapacity claimants owes more to broadening definitions of disability – and especially to an increase in people claiming benefits for mental health conditions. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 4 Oct. 2026 Get all communication in writing, said Burg, who advises claimants to talk to insurance adjusters via email or letter, not over the phone. — Sponsored Content, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2026 But half of the claimants dropped their suit, and Levi maintained that they were being threatened or paid off. — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 Only about a third resulted in discretionary payments, totaling less than 4% of what claimants had sought. — Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 In 2000, when a small tanker carrying no liability insurance and no class certificate sank off Abu Dhabi, the Funds paid claimants in the United Arab Emirates anyway. — Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026 Unlike certain other claimants of Appalachian background, Parton related her stories of hillbilly hardship without grievance. — David Kamp, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026 And since January, nearly 900 asylum claimants have been sent back to the US after being deemed ineligible under the Safe Third Country Agreement between the two nations, Cameron said. — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026 The judge has not enforced a cap on the total costs Harry and the other claimants may face. — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026

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heirs

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The heirs have been fighting for the artwork for decades, though the family chose after World War II not to sue for its return.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The top lot of the evening was an early Wassily Kandinsky painting, Das bunte Leben (1907), which was recently restituted to the heirs of the German Jewish art collector Hedwig Lewenstein-Weyermann in June 2023.

— News Desk, Artforum, 15 Oct. 2026

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