posthumous
Example Sentences
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The last woman to be executed in the UK has received a posthumous conditional pardon more than 70 years after her death - but who was she?
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2026
Yes, you can structure a trust that gives an independent trustee quite a lot of discretion over posthumous distributions.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026
Ben Sasse: It turns out if you’re 54 people and you get a terminal diagnosis, they act like you’re 94 and you need posthumous awards.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
That posthumous documentary followed the rehearsals for his London residency, which was canceled after he died, just 18 days before the first of 50 scheduled shows.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
All day long, she realized, she had been feeling strange, and seeing strangely, as though everything was already long in the past, made more vivid by posthumous ironies she could not quite grasp.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing posthumous
30 GRE Words Beginning with "P"
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