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inheritors

noun

plural of inheritor

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 Young and middle-aged inheritors are more digitally savvy and activism-oriented than older generations. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026 Another challenge that may result is leaving large tax liabilities for future generations, particularly if the inheritors receive such funds during their peak earning years. — Monish Verma, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 Among these delusions is the perennial faith that Iranians are potentially ardent converts to American-style freedom, rather than inheritors of an ancient civilization with a trajectory outlined by its own specific history. — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026 For inheritors of the banana leaf-wrapping tradition, this practice has both the literal and symbolic capacity to contain that relationship. — Sophia Rey, JSTOR Daily, 28 May 2026 The same thing goes for the writers of the past, who speak through their inheritors. — Giles Harvey, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026 That leaves Oseguera’s cadre of regional commanders as the most likely inheritors of his drug empire. — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026 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 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

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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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