posthumous
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And where she can have only a posthumous reunion with the woman who was her “second mother”? It seems to have a lot to do with Sam and Charlie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 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
But he says nothing about its posthumous Off Broadway production, in 2023, which played to packed houses and mixed reviews — not quite the valedictory Sondheim would have wanted.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
Black Sabbath star Ozzy Osbourne was awarded a posthumous lifetime achievement award, seven months after his death at the age of 76.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 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
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