as in delayed
occurring after one's death
the soldier was awarded a posthumous medal for valor
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Recent Examples of posthumous
Few artists have built a posthumous discography as formidable as Bowie’s, and his list of wins keeps growing.
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
On the eve of the artist’s posthumous retrospective at SFMOMA, a reporter visits the family home in Noe Valley, the center of her pioneering sculpture practice.
—Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
The governor on Friday also offered a posthumous pardon to Sgt.
—Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025
Most of the live footage has appeared before, on the posthumous Live in New York City album and home video in the Eighties.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2025
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
On the eve of the artist’s posthumous retrospective at SFMOMA, a reporter visits the family home in Noe Valley, the center of her pioneering sculpture practice.
—Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
The governor on Friday also offered a posthumous pardon to Sgt.
—Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025
Most of the live footage has appeared before, on the posthumous Live in New York City album and home video in the Eighties.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for posthumous
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In recent years, that has appeared in postmortem blood samples of drug users in Europe and the U.S.—
Brian Spegele,
WSJ,
22 Dec. 2022
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The vertical occipital fasciculus, or VOF, is identified in a postmortem human brain in 1909, but labeled with a different name.—
Jenny Blair,
Discover Magazine,
1 Oct. 2015
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“Posthumous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posthumous. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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