posthumous
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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
Catherine O’Hara won a posthumous Actor Award for actress in a comedy series for her role in “The Studio.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
I confess I’m not impervious to the posthumous allure.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
Most significantly, Flanner reported from the trials at Nuremberg, writing that a group of Nazi prisoners “seem already waxen and posthumous, like museum figures of the members of some nefarious long-ago regime which had failed.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 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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