inheritor
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The nizam’s court, with its sumptuous palaces, its concubines, its rituals and recitations of poetry and music, was the chief inheritor of the archaic grandeur of the moguls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Thornton Wilder, whose “Our Town” is the most famous dramatic inheritor of Winesburg’s legacy, cautioned in his stage directions that the play “should be performed without sentimentality or ponderousness — simply, dryly and sincerely.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
“Changing a name does not change the roots,” she said, adding when asked, “yes, also an inheritor of Petain,” referring to Marshall Philippe Petain, who headed the collaborationist Vichy government in WWII.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
From new wunderkid hero at the Camp Nou and inheritor of Lionel Messi's number 10 shirt, to an almost forgotten man as his young body was ravaged by injuries.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023
“I'm my father’s son, remember? I’m the inheritor of the dynasty. Number one on our catechism: Treat the son as you would the father, because one day the son will be the father.”
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
