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Horn had exited the public eye in 2015 following a stroke that postdated a career spent creating a multifaceted oeuvre that seethed with energy.
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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
Both of them postdate a report in the New York Times in April 2020 that Chris Cuomo had provided advice to Andrew Cuomo’s staff.
—Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
Coralie Mills of Dendrochronicle found that the samples of timbers retrieved from the riverbed were native oak, a wood rarely found at Scottish sites that postdate 1450.
—Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
Four of the ten Indian Ocean Dipoles that have occurred since 1240 postdate 1960.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
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
Both of them postdate a report in the New York Times in April 2020 that Chris Cuomo had provided advice to Andrew Cuomo’s staff.
—Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
Coralie Mills of Dendrochronicle found that the samples of timbers retrieved from the riverbed were native oak, a wood rarely found at Scottish sites that postdate 1450.
—Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
Four of the ten Indian Ocean Dipoles that have occurred since 1240 postdate 1960.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
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“Postdate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postdate. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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