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Six example sentences with posthumous, each labelled with its topic.
His third album was posthumous, assembled by bandmates from demo tapes found in a shoebox under the studio stairs.
Music
The posthumous edition included forty poems the author had sealed in an envelope marked for her editor only.
Literature
The medal was posthumous, awarded eleven years after the chemist's laboratory notebooks finally convinced the committee of her claim.
Science
Van Gogh's fame was almost entirely posthumous, since he sold only a handful of paintings while he was alive.
Art
The actor received a posthumous award for his final role, and his daughter accepted it on his behalf.
Movies
The league gave the pioneering coach a posthumous induction into the Hall of Fame, forty years after his last game.
Basketball
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