How to Use retroactive in a Sentence

retroactive

adjective

• They all received a retroactive pay raise.
• The new tax will be retroactive to January 1.
• The raises, if approved, would be retroactive to the start of the school year.
  — Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• The approval of these salary changes are retroactive to Jan. 11.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 24 Jan. 2023
• The law is not retroactive to those already on death row.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 20 May 2021
• The new law is retroactive to Jan. 20, the day Biden was sworn in as president.
  — Keith Ridler, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
• He will be placed on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Monday.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
• The ban is retroactive and will end next year, but the 2022 gold medal will now go to the USA, which placed second.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Crawford will miss at least10 days on the IL; the move was retroactive to Sunday.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2023
• The law is not retroactive, so renters could still be charged up to three months rent until June 30.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• Senate Bill 95 went into effect March 29 and is retroactive to the first of the year.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
• Brieske's move to the injury list is retroactive to Monday.
  — Chandler Engelbrecht, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2022
• Anderson went on the IL retroactive to May 30 with a strained right groin.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2022
• Irvin was placed on the IL retroactive to May 2 with left shoulder soreness.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2022
• Like the income tax cut in Montana, the tax relief in Idaho is made retroactive to the first day of 2021.
  — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 4 July 2021
• Gott, who was placed on the 15-day IL retroactive to June 6 with a right groin strain, is playing catch and running.
  — Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2022
• But that didn’t require a major retroactive overhaul of the Key Bridge.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• The bill that passed the state House this weekend and now goes to the Governor’s desk cuts income-tax rates across the board by about 21%, retroactive to Jan. 1.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2023
• The Braves placed Hamels on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Sept. 18, but that was a mere formality.
  — Paul Newberry, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• If the retroactive pay sets the rate back six months, how long can the benefits be suspended?
  — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
• The raise, approved Tuesday on a 3-0 vote, is retroactive to July 1.
  — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• Payments are promised to be retroactive for only the weeks ending Aug. 1 through Sept. 5.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2020
• The 13% pay increase will be retroactive to the start of the current fiscal year, or last Oct. 1, according to the new contract.
  — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
• One of his biggest questions is whether the order is retroactive.
  — Trisha Thadani, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• This year’s increase is retroactive to May 1, Trustee Scott Kunze said.
  — chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• This change is retroactive, so these households can claim an amount for the first payment as part of their 2020 tax returns.
  — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
• The program will be retroactive to the date herds were confirmed positive, the USDA said.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 26 June 2024
• The complaint also noted that the change to Section 230 is retroactive.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2020
• One of the unfortunate holdovers of 2010s startup culture is the retroactive application of customer feedback after a product is ready for market.
  — Meeri Savolainen, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• Miner thinks the State Department making the policy retroactive could be significant for many people.
  — Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Jan 2025