Definition of "postdate" [post•date]

• To put a date on (a check, for example) that is later than the actual date. (verb-transitive)
• To occur later than; follow in time. (verb-transitive)

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• "All written texts in Náhuatl naturally postdate the Spanish Conquest after which the Franciscans taught the Indians the art of writing their own language in alphabetical form."
• "If we return to the Limbo and Nkukutu sites introduced earlier to examine the strata that postdate the EIA-Urewe/Lelesu/pre-Kwale eras there is a pattern similar to that found at Kivinja."
• "Following these trends, which postdate the interest in female identity, a growing number of artists began to explore their identities as Jews."