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
The once heirs apparent and freshmen guards who were an afterthought in the regular-season opener four months ago are now fully entrenched in the driver’s seat of the Washington men’s basketball team.
From Seattle Times
As the oldest and as a boy, he should be the heir apparent, according to Confucian hierarchies.
From Washington Post
And when Mr. Kirkland was deposed as president by a revolt of constituent union leaders in August 1995, Mr. Donahue was named interim president, the heir apparent pending election at the federation’s convention in October.
From New York Times
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