posthumous
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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
I confess I’m not impervious to the posthumous allure.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 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
Most significantly, Flanner reported from the trials at Nuremberg, writing that a group of Nazi prisoners “seem already waxen and posthumous, like museum figures of the members of some nefarious long-ago regime which had failed.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
He didn’t want to leave this world for some posthumous glory.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Vocabulary lists containing posthumous
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