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The heiress, who inherited her father’s Wahaha stake, is now a billionaire in her own right with a net worth of $5.6 billion.
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Yue Wang, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Feeding into Milioti’s volatile performance, her costumes chart a journey from obedient heiress to homicidal mob boss, culminating in her violent retribution against Oz in the show’s penultimate episode.
—Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Book three in the series finds our heroes, JP and PJ, working on a house that, legend has it, is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful heiress who fell from the third-floor balcony on Halloween night 25 years ago.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
Cybill Shepherd stars as Amanda, an American heiress on a cross-country train trip in pre-war Nazi Germany, who befriends a kind older woman, Miss Froy (Angela Lansbury), during the journey.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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Yue Wang, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Feeding into Milioti’s volatile performance, her costumes chart a journey from obedient heiress to homicidal mob boss, culminating in her violent retribution against Oz in the show’s penultimate episode.
—Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Book three in the series finds our heroes, JP and PJ, working on a house that, legend has it, is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful heiress who fell from the third-floor balcony on Halloween night 25 years ago.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
Cybill Shepherd stars as Amanda, an American heiress on a cross-country train trip in pre-war Nazi Germany, who befriends a kind older woman, Miss Froy (Angela Lansbury), during the journey.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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His successor, President Masoud Pezeshkian, has signaled a willingness to negotiate sanctions relief with Western powers, but has not clarified his administration's strategy regarding space exploration.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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New trends in Gothic design led Sully’s successors to radically revamp the design, raising the roof and doubling the size of windows to let more light into the cathedral.Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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That's far higher than the federal match for other Medicaid beneficiaries, which averages about 57% nationwide.Phil Galewitz | KFF HEALTH NEWS, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Already, the country is the seventh top exporter of goods to the US and a beneficiary of the trade war with China.Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
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But Vance is the country's second-highest ranking Republican and considered Trump's heir apparent, making the upcoming opportunities chances to glimpse the power the 40-year-old holds across the GOP to promote the incoming administration's goals but also his own stock beyond his formal role.Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be the heir apparent, but there's still room for other candidates to step in and push for the Democratic nomination.Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 22 July 2024
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That can obviously set up some interesting, and potentially uncomfortable, situations for both the devisee and your surviving spouse.Dallas News, Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022
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When a person dies, his claim passes to his heirs or devisees, subject to the administration of his estate.Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2020
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After all, Qualcomm recently surpassed IBM as the number-two patent assignee in the U.S..Anshel Sag, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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The data looks at the assignees for both regular utility and design patents and was limited to assignees that received at least 10 patents within the year.al, al, 22 June 2023
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No offense to every other working actress, but Ariana is the sole heir to Barbra Streisand’s throne.Rachel Handler, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
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Many heirs consider caring for and managing the assets a burden or obligation.Bob Carlson, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Discover the three grantees and the honourable mentions exploring urgent and delicate issues of contemporary times.Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2024
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Among its grantees are Just Stop Oil, which threw the tomato soup and glued the Vermeer; Last Generation, which splattered the mashed potatoes on the Monet; Zepeda’s group, Declare Emergency; and the Social Change Lab, which conducts research on activism.Michelle Weber, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Heiress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heiress. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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