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Recent Examples of postdate
So the key activities both predate and postdate the J.C.P.O.A., although Iran was technically in non-compliance the entire time for failing to declare the materials.
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Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
Ranging in age from 150 to nearly 5,000 years, varying in length from 7 to 36 feet, many canoes postdate the arrival of Europeans.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
Ranging in age from 150 to nearly 5,000 years, varying in length from 7 to 36 feet, many canoes postdate the arrival of Europeans.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
Horn had exited the public eye in 2015 following a stroke that postdated a career spent creating a multifaceted oeuvre that seethed with energy.
—News Desk, Artforum, 10 Sep. 2024
Imagine an English literature course that included no books written after 1600; a philosophy syllabus designed on the assumption that all philosophers after David Hume were second-rate; an archaeology professor who refused to teach anything postdating the Lower Paleolithic.
—Peter Thonemann, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
Legislative leaders endorsed the reform and plan to vote next month to postdate the new rate to Jan. 1.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
Though different in form, these two venerable objects share visual features, not only with each other but with images that long preceded and postdated them.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
Many of the choices predate his career, and very few of the tracks that postdate the ’60s seem directly influenced by his work.
—Wesley Stace, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
Ranging in age from 150 to nearly 5,000 years, varying in length from 7 to 36 feet, many canoes postdate the arrival of Europeans.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
Ranging in age from 150 to nearly 5,000 years, varying in length from 7 to 36 feet, many canoes postdate the arrival of Europeans.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
Horn had exited the public eye in 2015 following a stroke that postdated a career spent creating a multifaceted oeuvre that seethed with energy.
—News Desk, Artforum, 10 Sep. 2024
Imagine an English literature course that included no books written after 1600; a philosophy syllabus designed on the assumption that all philosophers after David Hume were second-rate; an archaeology professor who refused to teach anything postdating the Lower Paleolithic.
—Peter Thonemann, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
Legislative leaders endorsed the reform and plan to vote next month to postdate the new rate to Jan. 1.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
Though different in form, these two venerable objects share visual features, not only with each other but with images that long preceded and postdated them.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
Many of the choices predate his career, and very few of the tracks that postdate the ’60s seem directly influenced by his work.
—Wesley Stace, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postdate
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Two more taxi services followed: Harlem and Deluxe.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
29 July 2025
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This trend also follows national data, where from 2000-2016, retention rates have been dropping.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
29 July 2025
Verb
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The open outcry trading and hand signals depicted in Trading Places and Wall Street have been replaced by streamlined digital trading experiences on global exchanges.—
Harry Temkin,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Wiles replaces Marc Bridge-Wilkinson in the role, who left at the end of last season after 10 years at the club and took up an assistant manager position at League One’s Huddersfield Town.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Postdate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postdate. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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