postdate
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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
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
This does rather suggest, don't you think, that the earliest arrivals on our world from the Outside postdate our fourteenth century, although I suppose earlier arrivals might have masqueraded as fruits or nuts ...
From Nature ● Jan. 29, 2014
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 Peter Mark Roget
Heck, it shouldn’t really be big news if you know Lady Gaga, period: Her entire career as a pop star, all of which postdates the 2005 launch of YouTube, has been fueled by the visual.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2019
The bulk of the activity postdates the end of Murray’s second marriage in 2008, but as with his screen performances, the dusting of midlife melancholy adds rather than subtracts from the stories.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2016
“The truth is, nobody knows much of anything about this because the modern case law postdates quarantines,” said Michael Dorf, an expert on constitutional law and civil liberties at Cornell Law School.
From Forbes ● Oct. 27, 2014
A 1658 painting by him is the one work in the opening gallery that postdates the Manchu takeover.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2011
From their character I am led to the belief that the drawing of human figures on pottery was a late development in Tusayan art, and postdates the use of animal figures on their earthenware.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
On appeal, Holmes plans to challenge several of the judge's rulings, including his allowance of evidence about Theranos' test accuracy that postdated her statements to investors.
From Reuters ● Apr. 11, 2023
These sites were assumed to have postdated the Bronze Age architecture of Mesopotamia and Egypt; instead, they came first.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
In practice, Lucas’s evocation of Campbell — and his Jungian theories of storytelling — is most likely a postdated attempt to add intellectual heft to the project.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019
If you work with your bank, you may be able to write a postdated check.
From Encyclopedia.com ● Mar. 21, 2018
Eurasia and Mesoamerica developed indigenous writing, which failed to emerge in Polynesia, except perhaps on Easter Island, whose mysterious script may however have postdated the islanders’ contact with Europeans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The Constitution speaks of the right to vote in no fewer than five clauses—all five postdating the Civil War.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2016
Mayor Harry Arista Mackey & staff tried to kite the city's pay checks by postdating them until Jan. 1, when Philadelphia could sell $2,000,000 in bonds to the sinking fund.
From Time Magazine Archive
These glances of wisdom help make All the Real Girls the best, most ornery date movie of the postdating age.
From Time Magazine Archive
This value is usually -1 under C libraries postdating V6 Unix, but was originally 0.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
They contain no reference postdating that to Isaac Reed's revised edition of Robert Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays, published in 1780.
From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Thomas Warton
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