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
Meanwhile, Keaton is getting a posthumous biopic series with Rami Malek portraying him.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 3 May 2025
Huston returns as the Director, Ian McShane is back as Winston, and Lance Reddick makes one final (posthumous) appearance as the Continental concierge, Charon.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2025
He is also set to make posthumous in four upcoming projects, including Towpath and Monsters Within.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 13 May 2025
From the August 1966 issue: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. on Mark Twain
This streak of anti-theodicy is the engine of Twain’s posthumous novel, The Mysterious Stranger (1916).
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 3 May 2025
Huston returns as the Director, Ian McShane is back as Winston, and Lance Reddick makes one final (posthumous) appearance as the Continental concierge, Charon.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2025
He is also set to make posthumous in four upcoming projects, including Towpath and Monsters Within.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 13 May 2025
From the August 1966 issue: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. on Mark Twain
This streak of anti-theodicy is the engine of Twain’s posthumous novel, The Mysterious Stranger (1916).
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 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 4 Jun. 2025.
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