postdate

Example Sentences

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Most fossils from the Frankincense family have, up until now, been recovered from rocks that postdate the asteroid impact.

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2023

And it argues its case by examining 38 other ostensibly liberatory images of Black subjects that predate and postdate this one.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022

They had a mutual attraction, and mutually expressed it in their postdate interviews: Alex said Katie was “definitely very attractive” while she said she “definitely thought he was handsome.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2022

The most common reason why you would postdate a check is if you are unsure about the number of funds that you currently have in your account.

From Encyclopedia.com • Mar. 21, 2018

V. misdate, antedate, postdate, backdate, overdate†; anticipate; take no note of time, lose track of time; anachronize†.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark