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Postdate

To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.

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Verb group 2

Follow 84% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Follow 84% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Follow 76% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Follow 92% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Foredate 94% connected

To date before the true time; to antendate.

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Foredate 94% connected

To date before the true time; to antendate.

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Actual adjective · 78% connection

Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivabl…

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Antedate verb · 78% connection

To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the tr…

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Backwardation noun · 78% connection

the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity.…

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Belief noun · 78% connection

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal…

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Betrothal noun · 78% connection

The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the per…

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Conditional contract noun · 78% connection

a contract whose performance depends on a fact or event that affects legal relations

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Contract noun · 78% connection

To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

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Date verb · 78% connection

To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.

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Dissemble verb · 78% connection

To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite.

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Entity noun · 78% connection

A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.

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Epoch noun · 78% connection

An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, ar…

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Examine verb · 78% connection

To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry…

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Exist verb · 78% connection

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Existent adjective · 78% connection

being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people, not ghosts"; "a film b…

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Fact noun · 78% connection

Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

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Facto adverb · 78% connection

In fact; by the act or fact.

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File verb · 78% connection

To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.

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Overdate verb · 78% connection

To date later than the true or proper period.

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