posterity

noun

pä-ˈster-ə-tē How to pronounce posterity (audio)
Definition of posteritynext
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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Recent Examples of posterity Even the journalists in the press box stood to acclaim Yamal’s greatness, taking out their phones to capture the moment for posterity. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 22 June 2026 Correspondent Faith Salie looks into what objects – high tech and low – made the cut to be preserved for posterity; and how the capsule itself was designed to survive 250 years underground. — David Morgan, CBS News, 11 June 2026 Pritzker last fall tasked the Illinois Accountability Commission with fact-finding about the sweeping Chicago-area raids for posterity, the public eye and potential future law enforcement actions, but the panel itself has no direct law enforcement power. — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026 The album’s name, Arirang, pays tribute to a treasured Korean folk ballad of the same name, which was famously the country’s first song, sung by Korean men, ever recorded (it was preserved for posterity by American ethnologist Alice Fletcher in 1896). — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for posterity
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offspring
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  • After several generations, those faster-growing cells produced more offspring and became increasingly common in the population, demonstrating a basic form of natural selection.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • Instead, the system simply makes a bunch of copies to increase the probability that some of them will end up in each of the offspring.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
Definition of offspring

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