posthumous
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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
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
"Fela has been an ancestor for 28 years. His legacy is growing by the day. This is immortality," Ghariokwu tells the BBC, welcoming the posthumous award.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
These are collected in her posthumous “Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
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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