posthumous
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Unlike traditional posthumous albums that stitch together loose verses, “Prolific” was recorded and sequenced nearly two years before Hussle’s death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Playing out on an operatic scale, and featuring a revelatory posthumous performance from Heath Ledger as the Joker, the film grossed over a billion dollars worldwide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing posthumous
30 GRE Words Beginning with "P"
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In the Time of the Butterflies
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