posthumous
Example Sentences
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He died last July, just weeks after a farewell concert in his hometown of Birmingham, and the Brits will honour him on Saturday with a posthumous lifetime achievement award.
From BBC
I confess I’m not impervious to the posthumous allure.
From Los Angeles Times
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
Andrew was stripped of his royal titles in October last year, following the publication of Giuffre's posthumous memoir.
From BBC
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
