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

“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

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 third word in the next line,” explained Baba, “was worn off the slab, its meaning washed away by centuries of rain, almost lost to posterity forever.”

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan