posterity

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“It gives us a sense of how Elizabethans recorded music for posterity; how they could relive a musical experience.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

There’s a stirring moment when Mikki frantically draws his memories of Iris and Arco on the wall of a cave for posterity.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

Many of the photographed women look directly at the camera, conscious of their political activity being documented for posterity.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

President Emmanuel Macron inside the Pantheon said Badinter's voice would ring out in posterity.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

But both men knew they were sending their letters to posterity as much as to each other.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis