postdates

Definition of postdatesnext
present tense third-person singular of postdate
as in follows
to come after in time the inscription at the base actually postdates the statue itself by a number of years

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  • That, and putting your people first, is what matters first and foremost; everything else follows after.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The agreement, which would be the first for the EU in Asean, follows numerous such deals Vietnam has inked — including with the US, China, Russia, Japan, India, UK, France and Australia — as its global economic and security role grows.
    Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026
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  • Whittingham replaces former head coach Sherrone Moore, who was fired in December after two seasons.
    DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • When institutions operate in a constant state of decay, crisis management replaces strategic planning, and long-term reform becomes impossible.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
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  • What succeeds Khamenei would likely be worse, as one man is not the entire Iranian system alone.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
  • This happens often enough when one administration succeeds another, to be sure, with the new team insisting that its predecessors were idiots, but the Hegseth Pentagon carries such insults to a new level.
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
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“Postdates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postdates. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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