as in offspring
the descendants of a person, animal, or plant
an association for people who have claims for being the posterity of Thomas Jefferson
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The episode opens with the sort of humiliation that no one would want recorded for posterity or presented to the public.
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2025
Thanks to their tradition of reserving 10 to 15 percent of the wines from each harvest in the cellar for posterity, Conde de los Andes has a deep collection of whites from as far back as 1930.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 28 Jan. 2025
Was this originally a document for posterity, your daughter?
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2025
Clinton Bailey, an American-Israeli academic whose research and documentation of the ancient traditions of the nomadic Bedouin tribes of the Middle East helped preserve a vanishing culture for posterity, died on Jan. 5 at his home in Jerusalem.
—Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2025
Thanks to their tradition of reserving 10 to 15 percent of the wines from each harvest in the cellar for posterity, Conde de los Andes has a deep collection of whites from as far back as 1930.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 28 Jan. 2025
Was this originally a document for posterity, your daughter?
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2025
Clinton Bailey, an American-Israeli academic whose research and documentation of the ancient traditions of the nomadic Bedouin tribes of the Middle East helped preserve a vanishing culture for posterity, died on Jan. 5 at his home in Jerusalem.
—Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Posterity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posterity. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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