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

“CP3 is the inheritor of the primary and founding mission of DHS — to prevent terrorism,” Braniff wrote on LinkedIn when he announced his resignation.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

Many argue she should also be seen and recognised as the descendant of another kind of family and that is the inheritor of generations of black female activists.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2024

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

She was the inheritor of a legacy of privilege.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell