as in successor
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Noun
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Fitted with a modern movement, two bracelet options, and a bulletproof case, this modern successor to the original ref.—
Oren Hartov,
Robb Report,
28 Mar. 2025 -
López Obrador bequeathed a great many vulnerabilities to his successor.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
28 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, from April 2026, the health or disability components of Universal Credit will be frozen for existing claimants until 2029/30 and virtually halved for new claimants.—
Gus Alexiou,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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What To Know This week, Social Security payments will be made on Wednesday, March 19, and are for those claimants who have a birthday that falls between the 11th and 20th of any calendar month.—
Aliss Higham,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Brown may be Valdez’s heir apparent as the Astros’ ace.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Just eight months after President Trump picked JD Vance to be his vice president, Vance is already positioned to be MAGA's heir apparent for 2028.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
18 Mar. 2025
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The group’s legal representatives pointed to some instances in an email to TIME.—
Chad de Guzman,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
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This year, the party has spent nearly $152,000 backing a slate of Calumet City candidates led by Mayor Thaddeus Jones, who also is a state representative.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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If bank accounts are owned in trust for or jointly with heirs, those assets will pass without regard to your legal documents.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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When they were finally retrieved by the collector’s heirs, the coins were stored in a bank vault and later presented to the auction house for sale.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2025
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Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.—
David Jackson,
USA TODAY,
8 Sep. 2024
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Humans, as legatees of this heritage, learn by seeing and visualizing.—
Stephen Jay Gould,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
Noun
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Despite a 126-113 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday — New York’s fourth loss in its last seven games — the Knicks were beneficiaries of Miami’s 122-112 victory over Atlanta on Thursday.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
28 Mar. 2025
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The biggest beneficiaries of VC funding have mostly been graduates of, or dropouts from, elite institutions like Stanford and Harvard.—
Dileep Rao,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Succeeder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/succeeder. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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