posterity

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Like Queen Victoria, Zadie Smith and many others, she had concluded that posterity would be better served without her full diary than with it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

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

Videos on social media and YouTube show people tagging empty storefronts, skateboarding or riding bicycles indoors and urban explorers touring the abandoned spaces for posterity or to look for signs of paranormal activity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

"That's the nice thing about research results – it might happen in five, 150, 500 years time. This research is there for posterity and I'm confident that smart people will use them in the future."

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

But both men knew they were sending their letters to posterity as much as to each other.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis