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

Oedipus calls himself Laius’ “successor, the inheritor of his legacy,” and in true Sophoclean fashion he speaks more than he knows.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

“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

It was as the inheritor of a view which covered a dozen miles of rollers, and hundreds of miW of cumulus.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White