as in to follow
to come after in time the inscription at the base actually postdates the statue itself by a number of years

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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. 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 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 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
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    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The 31-year-old reliever's absence forced the Dodgers to replace him with Justin Wrobleski.
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“Postdate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postdate. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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