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"text": "The baseball player is remembered by posterity as one of the best players who ever lived."
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"text": "If we cut down all of the world's trees, there will be none left for posterity."
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"text": "The people wanted a better government so they could have freedom for themselves and their posterity."
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"text": "We are saving money now so our posterity do not have to work as hard as we did."
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