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heiress

[air-is] / ˈɛər ɪs /






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The Internal Revenue Service is calling foul on an heiress who used the strategy—and is slapping her and her husband with a $736 million tax bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton outside the US Capitol on 17 December 2024.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

“It is your house,” the hotel heiress said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

He painted this one of the heiress to Hunt Wesson Foods and her husband, a zealous art fan, shortly after creating another well-known double portrait of Isherwood and Bachardy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

If she was not the heiress now, she would be soon, what with her clues, Angela's clues, Turtle's clues, Denton's clues, and the clues of Mr. Hoo's obedient son.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

A number of the Mars heiresses have held top roles at the candy and pet-food company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Who would listen to wealthy heirs and heiresses?

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025

Among the blindingly White milieu of social-climbing “wives of,” acid-tongued grand dames, bored heiresses, buzzing staff and one wide-eyed country cousin is Peggy Scott, an ambitious young Black woman who shines instead of shrinks.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2022

Vida’s San Francisco is ramshackle and eccentric, home to heiresses but also tide pools of counterculture backwash.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2021

Van never lost his way with women, and he later married and divorced at least two heiresses.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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