[
US
/ˌpoʊstˈdeɪt/
]
VERB
-
be later in time
Tuesday always follows Monday - establish something as being later relative to something else
How To Use postdate In A Sentence
- Is it possible that Dmytryk "postdated" the meetings to make more credible his tale of commitment and betrayal by the Communist Party that he had already repudiated? Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
- The Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis the so-called "Mummy Text" postdates the 3rd millenium BCE and is agreed upon to have been written in a form of Late Etruscan. Archive 2009-06-01
- More than 300 words and phrases are being examined, with OED researchers hoping to antedate them (find an earlier use) or postdate them (find a recent example to prove a word is still in use).
- Most manuscripts postdate the stories which have circulated by word of mouth for centuries.
- Following these trends, which postdate the interest in female identity, a growing number of artists began to explore their identities as Jews. Art in the United States.
- The Hamdi plurality in turn reaffirmed this limitation on the reach of Milligan, emphasizing that Quirin, a unanimous opinion, “both postdates and clarifies Milligan.” The Volokh Conspiracy » John Yoo’s Appeal
- Some of the mosaics postdate this period.
- In sample 17, development of the S-C fabric was postdated by growth of late garnet and fibrolite.
- Otherwise however there is an alluring semantic and phonetic link between the two that would postdate the etymology that many Nostraticists provide. Semitic and IE in the Neolithic: How intensive was the language contact?
- Mr. Petrakis managed the same way other small entrepreneurs did: To get money quickly, he took his customers' postdated checks to banks and sold them at a discount. Greek Crisis Exacts the Cruelest Toll
