posterity

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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 • Feb. 10, 2026

“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

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

I yield freely to the sacred frenzy ... the die is cast, and I am writing the book—to be read either now or by posterity, it matters not.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan