posterity
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It also clarified how, in a philosophical sense, the inheritance of the founding was accessible to more than the direct posterity of the Founders.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 8, 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 β Feb. 10, 2026
“It gives us a sense of how Elizabethans recorded music for posterity; how they could relive a musical experience.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 23, 2026
But praise was poured upon the humble pint's place in the nation's history, cultural life and language, and the government moved to ensure the measurement was preserved for posterity.
From BBC β Dec. 29, 2025
What’s more, unlike the paintings bequeathed to posterity by Constable or Rembrandt, his music has not ossified, frozen for ever in time.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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
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
Shakespeare's ghost has seen two or three posterities, beautifully at odds.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
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
If you and those in power with you should be found walking in the King’s steps, can you secure yourselves or posterities from an overturn?
From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Lewis Henry Berens
Vocabulary lists containing posterity
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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"Sonnet 55" by William Shakespeare
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