Example Sentences
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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 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
