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heir

noun as in person who inherits possessions

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Voters instead chose a political outsider, wealthy philanthropist and Levi’s heir Daniel Lurie, who promised to shut down open-air drug markets and make San Francisco less welcoming to street encampments.

Lurie and his mother are among the primary heirs of the Levi Strauss family fortune.

He’s previously criticized many of NATO’s European members for failing to commit more of heir GDP to their defense budgets.

From Salon

Harris is a child of and heir to the Black Freedom Struggle and the long civil rights movement.

From Salon

Roigard, in a rich vein of form for the Hurricanes and the heir apparent to the All Black nine jersey, had been tackled by Highlanders’ James Arscott.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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