posterity

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Like Queen Victoria, Zadie Smith and many others, she had concluded that posterity would be better served without her full diary than with it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 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 • Feb. 10, 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

"That's the nice thing about research results – it might happen in five, 150, 500 years time. This research is there for posterity and I'm confident that smart people will use them in the future."

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

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

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole