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Discover LudwigThe phrase "and posterity" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to future generations or descendants, often in the context of preserving something for them.
Example: "We must protect our environment for the sake of our children and posterity."
Alternatives: "and future generations" or "and those to come".
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"I want him to know how valuable this is for Greene and posterity," he told Cooke.
Actors, musicians, and even standup comedians record their best performances for broadcast and posterity.
Both wrote letters with posterity in mind and posterity scorns a lack of self-knowledge.
The jurist performs; and the law and posterity give worth to his contribution.
Everything, for Ono, is provisional and troubling: art, family, life and posterity.
Friday, for a seventh straight day, the pool and posterity were calling, and Phelps answered.
When Thomas F. Staley calls, writers know that money and posterity are on the line.
And posterity duly ignored Weiss, partly because there was nothing suitable on which to play his music.
The desire for fame, the recognition of one's creative genius by contemporaries and posterity, merges with the aspiration to possess the mistress and the divine Truth she represents.
"Thanks to these legacies, we do not worry about the destiny of ourselves and posterity at this time of national mourning," it said.
But unlike a memoir, they aren't written in retrospect for a mass of strangers, with self-protection and posterity in mind.
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