posterity
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Woven into the narratives are interludes—some are standalone chapters, others are lengthy parenthetical additions—that flash forward to reveal the anticlimaxes of the characters’ latter years and, as Ms. Li views it, their irrelevance to posterity.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 6, 2026
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 β Sep. 6, 2026
Yet posterity knows this patron saint of the college English major as the father of economics.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 21, 2026
If the well-being of American posterity dictates our policy decisions, fixing this problem should be our first step.
From The Wall Street Journal β Feb. 10, 2026
She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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
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
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
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
Shakespeare's ghost has seen two or three posterities, beautifully at odds.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
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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