postdates

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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  • Horimiya follows two high school teens, popular girl Hori and gloomy Miyamura, who grow close after agreeing to keep their home lives a secret from their peers.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The follow-up to the uproarious La Dolce Vita, Fellini’s fantastical movie within a movie follows a film director who suffers a creative block during the production of his newest work.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • Glashow, most recently CEO of the BBC global media & streaming division, replaces Jane Rosenthal as head of the Tribeca Festival, the content division Tribeca Studios and the distribution label Tribeca Films and production company.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • When sleep changes, or when silence replaces conversation.
    Essence, Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • Benioff has numerous reasons to personally ensure the event succeeds, both as a CEO and as a community philanthropist.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • At a time when homages to retro Latin genres have become a cliché, Como Las Canto Yo succeeds by subverting expectations.
    Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Postdates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postdates. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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