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Recent Examples of postdateSo 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
Shut out of control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, Democrats are seeking to rebuild their brand with the American electorate following a poor performance during the 2024 presidential election.
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Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Sep. 2025
Never follow your boyfriend to college, especially a seemingly mediocre college, as Belly does with Jeremiah to the fictional Finch.
Ryan was replaced in the third inning by right-handed reliever — and former Royal — Thomas Hatch.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Sep. 2025
Our testers especially loved that the granules are packaged in an ergonomic plastic jug that makes lifting and tilting it a breeze when replacing the litter.
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