posterity
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Such documents tend to serve as the last word on an artist’s creative output, and whatever gets included matters to posterity, and therefore the marketplace.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 15, 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 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
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
They turn out to be little separate creatures, the colonial posterity of migrant prokaryocytes, probably primitive bacteria that swam into ancestral precursors of our eukaryotic cells and stayed there.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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
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
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
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
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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