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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

If you have ever written a check and made it payable to someone but included a future date, you have postdated a 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