posterity

Woven into the narratives are interludes—some are standalone chapters, others are lengthy parenthetical additions—that flash forward to reveal the anticlimaxes of the characters’ latter years and, as Ms. Li views it, their irrelevance to posterity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Chawawa was in his teens when social media and smartphones took off, and says he "took for granted" the brief time before any and every fun occasion was recorded and posted for posterity.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Yet posterity knows this patron saint of the college English major as the father of economics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Known to posterity as “Stobaeus,” he lived in a time of turbulence, when “the Roman Empire was collapsing in the West but holding up better in the Greek-speaking East.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

Unfortunately for posterity, the Spaniards destroyed all but four of these books.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

He asked indignantly how the House of Lords could expect the Commons to give their concurrence to a measure "by which they and their posterities are to be excluded from the Peerage."

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy

Remember, it is not before my Lord Buckhurst and Master Beale that we sit, but before all posterities for evermore, who will hear of Mary Stewart and her wrongs.

From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Mary Yonge

If you and those in power with you should be found walking in the King’s steps, can you secure yourselves or posterities from an overturn?

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Lewis Henry Berens

Shakespeare's ghost has seen two or three posterities, beautifully at odds.

From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Friar Bacon reading one day of the many conquests of England, bethought himself how he might keep it hereafter from the like conquests, and to make himself famous hereafter to all posterities.

From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous