posterity
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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
Donation for posterity offers a paradoxical solution to two great problems associated with keeping a diary.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 6, 2026
Stanton is a huge and consequential personage in American history, but she has dwindled in the eyes of posterity to become a subordinate of Anthony.
From The Wall Street Journal β Feb. 27, 2026
Videos on social media and YouTube show people tagging empty storefronts, skateboarding or riding bicycles indoors and urban explorers touring the abandoned spaces for posterity or to look for signs of paranormal activity.
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 10, 2026
Unfortunately for posterity, the Spaniards destroyed all but four of these books.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Shakespeare's ghost has seen two or three posterities, beautifully at odds.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
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
Reading one day of the many conquests of England, he bethought himselfe how he might keepe it hereafter from the like conquests, and so make himselfe famous hereafter to all posterities.
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
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
Remember, it is not before my Lord Buckhurst and Master Beale that we sit, but before all posterities for evermore, who will hear of Mary Stewart and her wrongs.
From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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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