posthumous
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Posthumous inductees announced Tuesday include junior lightweight champion Tod Morgan in the Old Timer category and ring announcer Chuck Hull in the Non-Participant category.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
Posthumous wins in Hollywood aren't as common as you might think.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2021
Posthumous honorees include lightweight champion Frank Erne in the old timer category, Paddy Ryan in the pioneer category and promoter Dan Goossen in the nonparticipant category.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2019
In “Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey,” the cultural critic Mark Dery explains how Gorey was always looking to pare things down.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2018
The article on Shelley’s Posthumous Poems in the Edinburgh of July, 1824, was attributed to Procter by Blackwood’s and assailed in a most disgusting manner.
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette
Vocabulary lists containing posthumous
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