Example Sentences

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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

The French occupation of Madagascar postdates our visit to it.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)