posterity

Through Mr. Smith’s skillful use of this and many other primary sources, Mignon Langnas joins her fellow diarists Anne Frank and Victor Klemperer as eyewitnesses to catastrophe and witnesses for posterity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

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 ● Sep. 6, 2026

It also clarified how, in a philosophical sense, the inheritance of the founding was accessible to more than the direct posterity of the Founders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

And for posterity, his “Experimental Telephone” can be found at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American as an artifact of American enterprise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

“The third word in the next line,” explained Baba, “was worn off the slab, its meaning washed away by centuries of rain, almost lost to posterity forever.”

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

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

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

During those primeval centuries, there lived at the same time nine patriarchs, together with their posterities, and all of them in harmony concerning the faith in the blessed seed!

From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by John Nicholas Lenker

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

Shakespeare's ghost has seen two or three posterities, beautifully at odds.

From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken