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posthumous

[pos-chuh-muhs, -choo-] / ˈpɒs tʃə məs, -tʃʊ- /
ADJECTIVE
after death
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Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle Steve McMichael, a key member of the Chicago Bears Super Bowl XX champion team, had CTE, a posthumous study shows.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

A posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, has won the top prize at this year’s British Book Awards.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Ben Sasse: It turns out if you’re 54 people and you get a terminal diagnosis, they act like you’re 94 and you need posthumous awards.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

That posthumous documentary followed the rehearsals for his London residency, which was canceled after he died, just 18 days before the first of 50 scheduled shows.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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