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The Constitution speaks of the right to vote in no fewer than five clauses—all five postdating the Civil War.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2016

The only postdating I did was in the lead paragraph, where I referred to the conference�in the most general terms�in the past tense, by way of introduction.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mayor Harry Arista Mackey & staff tried to kite the city's pay checks by postdating them until Jan. 1, when Philadelphia could sell $2,000,000 in bonds to the sinking fund.

From Time Magazine Archive

These glances of wisdom help make All the Real Girls the best, most ornery date movie of the postdating age.

From Time Magazine Archive

They contain no reference postdating that to Isaac Reed's revised edition of Robert Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays, published in 1780.

From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas