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Recent Examples of postdate
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.
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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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postdate
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When Austin and Phoenix cleared the way for semiconductor expansion, billions in private investment followed.—
Ethan Karp,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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But overshadowing much of his testimony will be the Pentagon's decision to send some 4,800 troops, including 700 Marines, to Los Angeles following several days of clashes between protesters and law enforcement there.—
Anne Flaherty,
ABC News,
10 June 2025
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Bills introduced last week would have replaced the RTA with a new entity called the Northern Illinois Transit Authority that would be given broad planning authority.—
Talia Soglin,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2025
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There were a few obvious hurdles: Tom Holland, who played Gregory Cromwell, was now too famous, and Bernard Hill, who starred as the Duke of Norfolk, died before production (he was replaced with Timothy Spall).—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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“Postdate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postdate. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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