posterity

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The reason is that the sport’s fancy new automated ball-strike system couldn’t function without it—which means that the days of players embellishing their heights for posterity are officially over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 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

But praise was poured upon the humble pint's place in the nation's history, cultural life and language, and the government moved to ensure the measurement was preserved for posterity.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

The audience was breathless not only with excitement but with phone activity recording the encounter for digital posterity.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

Field is one of those composers who has been dealt an inexplicably poor hand by posterity but who had a huge influence on other composers in their own time.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall