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Recent Examples of postdate
Most of those emails postdate the time when the two were friends.
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Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 19 Nov. 2025
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
Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 19 Nov. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postdate
Verb
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In addition to the void left by Lemon and Lane’s departures, the Trojans will also be without their top returning wideout this spring, as Tanook Hines will sit out the entire session following an offseason procedure.—
Ryan Kartje,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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Jack Horner, a renowned paleontologist who worked as a consultant on all seven films in the Jurassic Park franchise, is no longer employed as a lecturer at Chapman University, following his name appearing several times in the Epstein files.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Center back Micael went in a minute later, replacing Cesar Abadia-Reda and Joseph Convers went in for Suarez.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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California’s only successful gubernatorial recall, in 2003, saw voters oust Democrat Gray Davis and replace him with Schwarzenegger.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Postdate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postdate. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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