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Recent Examples of heiress
Yasmin, the heiress of a publishing empire, stumbles at her Pierpont & Co. post, buffeted by industry sexism, a dysfunctional family, her predatory father and low expectations about her abilities.
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Carole Horst, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
By contrast, Astaire plays an airhead dancer in Top Hat, a mistaken identity story co-starring Ginger Rogers, who is a beautiful heiress with no problems in London and Paris.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
Looking ahead, the hotel heiress is returning to her roots in a three-part Simple Life spinoff, Paris & Nicole: The Encore, which follows the friends on more absurd adventures (including a sanasa opera, according to The Hollywood Reporter).
—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Indeed, over one lunch at the Bungalows, there’s a constant parade of greeters: As soon as the head of a top talent agency’s film department is done embracing her, a billionaire heiress is cooing over her.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
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Carole Horst, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
By contrast, Astaire plays an airhead dancer in Top Hat, a mistaken identity story co-starring Ginger Rogers, who is a beautiful heiress with no problems in London and Paris.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
Looking ahead, the hotel heiress is returning to her roots in a three-part Simple Life spinoff, Paris & Nicole: The Encore, which follows the friends on more absurd adventures (including a sanasa opera, according to The Hollywood Reporter).
—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Indeed, over one lunch at the Bungalows, there’s a constant parade of greeters: As soon as the head of a top talent agency’s film department is done embracing her, a billionaire heiress is cooing over her.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heiress
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Because of the proximity to the inauguration, Biden will reportedly not be enforcing the ban and is leaving the decision to his successor.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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But in spite of those successes, Biden's legacy likely rests largely in the hands of his successor: Donald Trump.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Research into beneficiaries comes amid reports that TikTok is preparing to shutter its app in the U.S. on Jan.19 in response to a federal ban slated to go into effect.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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Both daughters are beneficiaries of The Tony Bennett 1994 Family Trust, as is their brother Dae, while Danny is sole trustee.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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The King may, however, select one of his brothers as heir apparent.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Jones was drafted in 2019 with the No. 6 pick as the heir apparent to Eli Manning.—
Mike DeFabo,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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That can obviously set up some interesting, and potentially uncomfortable, situations for both the devisee and your surviving spouse.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
20 Feb. 2022
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When a person dies, his claim passes to his heirs or devisees, subject to the administration of his estate.—
Virginia Hammerle,
Dallas News,
26 Jan. 2020
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After all, Qualcomm recently surpassed IBM as the number-two patent assignee in the U.S..—
Anshel Sag,
Forbes,
29 Feb. 2024
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The data looks at the assignees for both regular utility and design patents and was limited to assignees that received at least 10 patents within the year.—
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22 June 2023
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Miami deciding to call attention to the NFL’s longest current playoff-victory drought would be akin to Richard Nixon’s heirs staging an annual Watergate parade.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
16 Jan. 2025
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Season two hones in on the nature-versus-nurture tension between the innies and the outies, most poignantly through office rebel Helly (Britt Lower), who discovered at the end of season one that her outie is Helena Eagan, heir to the company that she’s dedicated her life to railing against.—
Abby Monteil,
Them,
15 Jan. 2025
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Other proposals included a term limit for institute directors with a maximum duration of two terms, adding new oversight measures for grantees and adding new restrictions on research grants that present national security risks.—
Nathaniel Weixel,
The Hill,
15 Jan. 2025
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The Stepping Stone grantees will remain involved with Trellis for a year, while the Milestone grantees receive funding and professional development assistance over the span of two years, during which they are also invited to participate in a retreat.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Heiress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heiress. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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