posthumous
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These are posthumous honors for a number of recipients, including Vandross, Cruz, Kuti, Parsons, Creed, Mardin, Miller and Sullivan.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Two victims - a mother who saved her baby in her dying moments and a security guard who was fatally stabbed on his first day shift - will receive posthumous awards.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
There is no escaping the fact that by watching “Love Story,” we are engaging in a posthumous version of the very same thing.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
When Deffand was asked to contribute her letters to Voltaire to a posthumous edition of his correspondence, she refused; she did not want to give posterity “any occasion for myself to be spoken of.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
The Hamiltonian story required a distortion in the sequence of the exchange in order to preserve Hamilton’s posthumous reputation.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing posthumous
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