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

Stanton is a huge and consequential personage in American history, but she has dwindled in the eyes of posterity to become a subordinate of Anthony.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

There’s a stirring moment when Mikki frantically draws his memories of Iris and Arco on the wall of a cave for posterity.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 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

They turn out to be little separate creatures, the colonial posterity of migrant prokaryocytes, probably primitive bacteria that swam into ancestral precursors of our eukaryotic cells and stayed there.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas