backdate
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Teams can backdate IL moves a maximum of three days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
The state, meanwhile, wants to backdate residence to Jan. 1.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026
Last November their members, including guards and ticket office staff, voted to accept a pay offer including a backdate pay rise of 5% for 2022-23 as well as job security guarantees.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024
They accepted the deal in September after the company agreed to backdate the increase by an extra month.
From Reuters ● Dec. 23, 2022
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
EagleBank backdated the client’s loan payments to make it appear as though they were on time, the settlement says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The government previously announced a £100,000 annual cap on donations from British citizens living overseas backdated to 25 March.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The Dodgers backdated the IL move to Monday, so Smith will be eligible to return June 19, when the Dodgers open a three-game home series against the Orioles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
In such cases, bans are typically backdated to the start of the provisional suspension, meaning his current return date would be around December 2028.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
It felt like I was getting backdated karma for being a good person.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
He added that Telegram was making its "edited" label more prominent to help prevent backdating scams.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Hemsley joined UnitedHealth in 1997 and became CEO in 2006 after his predecessor was ousted amid a stock-options backdating scandal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
By early 2015, months before Wired published its article, he was locked in disputes with the Australian tax office, which accused him of backdating documents and conducting “sham transactions,” court records show.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
In 1936, he opened the Jules Maes Saloon at 5919 Airport Way S., slyly backdating its founding to 1888.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
Karatz, the former CEO of KB Home, was convicted in 2010 of lying about stock-option backdating and later sentenced to house arrest at his Bel-Air mansion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
