posterity

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

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

But posterity will almost certainly remember Monday as the “Wemby game,” in which the 22-year-old Frenchman single-handedly dismantled one of the greatest teams, statistically, that the NBA has ever seen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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

In effect, if Adams had a different story to tell, if he saw a different pattern in the historical swirl they had both lived through, he should write out his account and let posterity judge.

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

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

During those primeval centuries, there lived at the same time nine patriarchs, together with their posterities, and all of them in harmony concerning the faith in the blessed seed!

From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by John Nicholas Lenker

BUT Love has more to do with his own possible and probable posterities, than with the once living but now impossible ancestries in the past.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

Reading one day of the many conquests of England, he bethought himselfe how he might keepe it hereafter from the like conquests, and so make himselfe famous hereafter to all posterities.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

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