posterity
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Chawawa was in his teens when social media and smartphones took off, and says he "took for granted" the brief time before any and every fun occasion was recorded and posted for posterity.
From BBC β Sep. 6, 2026
Yet posterity knows this patron saint of the college English major as the father of economics.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 21, 2026
But posterity will almost certainly remember Monday as the “Wemby game,” in which the 22-year-old Frenchman single-handedly dismantled one of the greatest teams, statistically, that the NBA has ever seen.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 19, 2026
The reason is that the sport’s fancy new automated ball-strike system couldn’t function without it—which means that the days of players embellishing their heights for posterity are officially over.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 1, 2026
Stan allowed you to come here to do your parents a favor, but also because we need to start selectively sharing this secret with our posterity.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
If you and those in power with you should be found walking in the King’s steps, can you secure yourselves or posterities from an overturn?
From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Lewis Henry Berens
Shakespeare's ghost has seen two or three posterities, beautifully at odds.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
BUT Love has more to do with his own possible and probable posterities, than with the once living but now impossible ancestries in the past.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
He asked indignantly how the House of Lords could expect the Commons to give their concurrence to a measure "by which they and their posterities are to be excluded from the Peerage."
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy
Friar Bacon reading one day of the many conquests of England, bethought himself how he might keep it hereafter from the like conquests, and to make himself famous hereafter to all posterities.
From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous
Vocabulary lists containing posterity
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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"Sonnet 55" by William Shakespeare
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