posterity

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The reason is that the sport’s fancy new automated ball-strike system couldn’t function without it—which means that the days of players embellishing their heights for posterity are officially over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 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 • Jan. 23, 2026

The audience was breathless not only with excitement but with phone activity recording the encounter for digital posterity.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

Many of the photographed women look directly at the camera, conscious of their political activity being documented for posterity.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

The original sweatshop has been preserv ed for posterity at Lew Pants.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole