posthumous

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Catherine O’Hara won a posthumous Actor Award for actress in a comedy series for her role in “The Studio.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 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

There is no escaping the fact that by watching “Love Story,” we are engaging in a posthumous version of the very same thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

These are collected in her posthumous “Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer