post-date
to have existed or happened before something else:
antedate sth by 6 months/ten years, etc. Adverse information that antedates a consumer report by more than seven years is not reportable.

Examples of antedate

antedate
The passage could have been excised, which seems unlikely; it could also antedate the sources that include it.
This rejection of all preexisting models positioned his interpretive method as a final break with all of the dream psychologies antedating his own.
Much of this transformation antedates the merger movement, including provisions allowing for combinations.
It also seems safe to assume that evidential modality antedates evaluative modality with these verbs.
The virtually double first ministership, one from each community, has a pedigree antedating the negotiations, as we shall see.
That a structure antedated the function it performs, offers a sufficient criterion for recognition of exaptation.
Moreover, they were able to reconceptualize their own experience with humans who encountered machines, experience that antedated even the naming and categorizing of accident proneness.
Depressed persons tend to reside in adverse circumstances that may antedate, co-occur with, and persist beyond their depression.
This, in turn, suggests that the prerequisites for such abilities may antedate modern humans quite substantially.
Family interaction patterns that antedate the onset of schizophrenia and related disorders : a further analysis of data from a longitudinal, prospective study.
Pulmonary stenosis of both mild and severe types has been diagnosed at progressively earlier ages in the period under study, and this trend antedates the introduction of echocardiography.
There is something which makes them value the written language over the spoken, even though the latter antedates the former in the child and the race.
Maternal characteristics index stable maternal characteristics that antedated or were relatively uninfluenced by a woman's transition to parenthood.
The target population may follow a rule (and subsequent courts may apply a rule) that antedates and justifies the precedential decision, but that is not treating the precedent as authoritative.
These antedate the time to locate the clinic and all components of delay preceded the estimate of gestation at the time of admission to the clinic.
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