postdated

• past participle

  past participle

  A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.

  of postdate.
  postdate

  verb (used with object)

  to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
• past tense form

  past tense

  Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.

  of postdate.
  postdate

  verb (used with object)

  to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.

Example Sentences

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postdated

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

Several lawmakers who submitted letters calling for a vote asked Mr. Brady that they be postdated so they would not be seen as interfering with the jubilee.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

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

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

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