posthumous
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Many of the women are former Harrods employees, nannies and private flight attendants who came forward following a 2024 BBC posthumous investigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Rob Reiner earned a posthumous Emmy nomination for his guest role as restaurant consultant Albert Schnurr in ‘The Bear’ Season 4.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Painters also adopted European conventions emphasizing divine rule in imperial portraits, as in a posthumous one of Akbar with a halo and winged cherubs above him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK, has been granted a posthumous conditional pardon.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
This argument was much more robust than the mind/matter distinction, and came under systematic attack only in Hume’s posthumous Dialogues.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing posthumous
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