heir apparent
Example Sentences
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AIG is paying him $2.7 million under a “mutual agreement” that he forfeit a coveted role as its heir apparent, according to securities filings.
His would-be challengers have been sizing up political billiard balls for the possibility of an increasingly tricky bank shot: persuading Republican voters to forsake him, while presenting themselves as the movement’s heir apparent.
From New York Times
As the oldest and as a boy, he should be the heir apparent, according to Confucian hierarchies.
From Washington Post
The Mariners have no immediate heir apparent to push Crawford.
From Seattle Times
“The more he sets himself as the tip of the spear, the more it helps his positioning as an heir apparent, or as somebody who’s going be viable nationally,” Madrid said.
From Los Angeles Times
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