legacy
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Thayil wants to get things right — he explains that he was the person thinking about Soundgarden’s legacy after the band broke up in 1997.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
If you make it a legacy for your two children, you have even more reason to keep the policy for now.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
“Your legacy is not what you did in the short term, it’s for what you did in the long term.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Fujimori, 51, appeals to the mixed legacy of her late father, who stabilized the economy and defeated a Maoist insurgency, but was convicted of corruption and crimes against humanity.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
It was like all the good and true things he’d ever done didn’t matter, and he, who he was, the legacy he’d worked so hard for, was dissolving, frittering away with every lie they told.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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