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- noun Plural form of
inheritor .
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In the 1960s the movement's Latin American inheritors exploded with high-quality novels, creating the "Boom" -- extraordinary work by, among others, Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Jose Lezama Lima and Jose Donoso, who wrote a 1972 book about the Boom.
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Han administrative officials, who may be described as the inheritors of the principles of the fa-chia writers of the preceding centuries.
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It isn't going to change until people who get elected who are not paid mouthpieces of the entitled inheritors, as opposed to the true wealth builders and your average worker.
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So what I object to here is the misleading "inheritors" (of any philosophy, in fact), the misleading "the", and the implication that Marx and/or Hegel were "essential factors in guiding Nazi thought".
Pharyngula 2009
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If we do not begin to act with radical defiance against these antiquated energy systems and those who insist their dominance, we may become like the decedents of the Maya -- the unwitting, neo-tribal inheritors of a hollowed empire, the machines and cities of which were themselves facades of shortsighted hubris.
Josh Tickell: For Earth Day: The Portent of Things to Come Josh Tickell 2011
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Looking at the present and future, I agree with Lou above about both James Enge and Scott Lynch being worthy inheritors of the genre.
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Hindus are inheritors of a culture which integrated spirituality and science with great pageantry.
Anju Bhargava: Makar Sankranti: A Hindu Celebration Of Science And Spirituality Anju Bhargava 2011
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A statistical study need be made as to the average Income level of inheritors prior to receipt of inheritance.
What Explains Inequality?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Hindus are inheritors of a culture which integrated spirituality and science with great pageantry.
Anju Bhargava: Makar Sankranti: A Hindu Celebration Of Science And Spirituality Anju Bhargava 2011
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If we do not begin to act with radical defiance against these antiquated energy systems and those who insist their dominance, we may become like the decedents of the Maya -- the unwitting, neo-tribal inheritors of a hollowed empire, the machines and cities of which were themselves facades of shortsighted hubris.
Josh Tickell: For Earth Day: The Portent of Things to Come Josh Tickell 2011
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