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Someone who gets something from another who has died.

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  • They had that air of readiness for what would come to them, a kind of surety, an expectancy, the look of an inheritor.
  • Nolan is occasionally described as the inheritor of Stanley Kubrick's mantle, and there are allusions.
  • Eiki (aka the inheritor of Zhuge Liang's fan) hates waiting for her lovers to perform.
  • Khan is the sixth generation inheritor of this lineage.
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