How to Use backdate in a Sentence

backdate

verb

• His 10-day stint on the disabled list was backdated to his last start.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• The Orioles would have to make such a move by Tuesday in order to backdate it to Sunday and get Bundy back sooner.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 25 June 2018
• The current pay deal expired at the end of March and any increases will be backdated.
  — Michael Cohen, Bloomberg.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• A stint on the disabled list can be backdated only three days under the current rules.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 15 May 2017
• Where backdating can be proven, however, all this gets turned on its head.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2023
• For those who had to wait to file a new claim, unemployment workers will be able to backdate any new initial claims.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 13 Apr. 2021
• If the lives of two clams overlap, scientists can align their series of wider and narrower rings and so backdate their birth as well as death dates.
  — Steven N. Austad, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
• If that is the case, and given that a ban would be backdated to the date of the positive test, a September showdown with Golovkin would still be a viable option.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2018
• The order is backdated to Jan. 20 and brings to 18 the number of states with disaster declarations due to the coronavirus.
  — USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2020
• For years, fantasists who peddle the fiction that Shakespeare didn’t write the plays attributed to him have failed to get Wikipedia to backdate doubts about his authorship.
  — James Shapiro, The Atlantic, 8 June 2019
• However, the eight weeks covered by those funds is backdated to February 15, which means the first eight-week period ends next week.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2020
• Stints on the 60-day DL cannot be backdated into the final week of spring training, so the soonest Perkins could be activated would be June 1 should that option be used.
  — Mike Berardino, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2017
• His DL stint was backdated to July 23, which means he can be activated as early as Aug. 2.
  — Matt Gelb, Philly.com, 26 July 2017
• His disabled list stint was backdated three days, the maximum allowed under MLB rules.
  — J.p. Hoornstra, Orange County Register, 8 May 2017
• By order of the secretary of the Army, the promotion was backdated to May 1946, according to the proclamation read at the ceremony.
  — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
• Doctors can backdate fractures based on X-rays showing when bone healing began.
  — Stephanie Clifford, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2020
• Since Ahmed has not played in an official exhibition in recent days, the club could place him on the injured list and backdate him three days, meaning a 10-day stint would cost him only seven days.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2021
• In November 2019, The Reporter published an article in which a lawyer for one of the teenagers claimed that county officials had backdated a document in his client’s case.
  — Emily Flitter, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
• The lead investigator, who was later fired for backdating a search warrant in a different murder case, also took the stand for the defense.
  — Fernando Alfonso Iii, Houston Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
• She was convicted of a misdemeanor for backdating her son’s candidacy paperwork for a state House seat, impeached by the House and removed by the state Supreme Court.
  — Jason Hancock, kansascity, 25 Feb. 2018
• A DL assignment can be backdated up to three days, which left the Padres another full day to evaluate Margot’s condition.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
• All applicants can backdate their claims to the date when their employment situation changed and request benefits based on that date.
  — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2020
• The decision was backdated to June 7, meaning the families of the service members killed in Niger and their fellow soldiers will receive back pay for their deployment.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• At least 19 more were created after dos Santos was fired and seemingly backdated to look like they were made beforehand.
  — Max De Haldevang, Quartz Africa, 19 Jan. 2020
• They are being sued for publishing and amplifying the claims of a postal worker in Erie, Pa., who implicated his boss in a plot to backdate mail-in ballots and help elect President Biden.
  — New York Times, 13 Mar. 2022
• The caveat holder then had three months to put together a full application, which, although filed later than its rival, would be backdated to match the original caveat.
  — Nat Segnit, Harper's Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022
• She was convicted of a misdemeanor for backdating her son’s candidacy paperwork for a state House seat, then later impeached by the House and removed by the state Supreme Court.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• Zimmerman’s unlucky love streak backdates his recent ban from Tinder.
  — oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2019
• More damning, the president had claimed a deduction he shouldn't have used, backdating the donation of his vice presidential papers.
  — Kevin M. Kruse, Esquire, 14 Apr. 2017
• That means the state technically operated without a budget for much of the morning, but since the budget is dated July 18, funding now is legally backdated for the entire day.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com, 18 July 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024