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occurring after one's death
the soldier was awarded a posthumous medal for valor
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Recent Examples of posthumous
Apple was awarded a posthumous purple heart in a ceremony last year.
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Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 20 June 2025
It’s sprinkled throughout speeches and social media posts, it’s been the subject of a posthumous TIME cover, and even inspired the dedication of a Brooklyn Park in her honor.
—Raquel Willis, Time, 19 June 2025
Silhouetted portraits of her parents, a lock of Austen’s hair and playful letters to her young niece are reminders that, despite her posthumous success, Austen was a modest figure in her lifetime.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
But then, too, there was the imaginative rigor of the posthumous realms Dante conjured from those lines, which had, over the centuries, attracted mathematical minds possessed of vastly more sophistication than my own.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
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Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 20 June 2025
It’s sprinkled throughout speeches and social media posts, it’s been the subject of a posthumous TIME cover, and even inspired the dedication of a Brooklyn Park in her honor.
—Raquel Willis, Time, 19 June 2025
Silhouetted portraits of her parents, a lock of Austen’s hair and playful letters to her young niece are reminders that, despite her posthumous success, Austen was a modest figure in her lifetime.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
But then, too, there was the imaginative rigor of the posthumous realms Dante conjured from those lines, which had, over the centuries, attracted mathematical minds possessed of vastly more sophistication than my own.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for posthumous
postmortem
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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 10 Jul. 2025.
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