antedate
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This selection, which includes several cartoons that antedate the age of Trump, showcases several modes.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2017
These stones antedate even the long-ago, medieval world in which this “Macbeth” is set.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2014
Robert Hooke, not long after, suggested that the fossil record would form the basis for a chronology that would “far antedate ... even the very pyramids.”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2013
Historically the city and the civilization at Quito antedate Columbus and hark back to glorious Inca times.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have since that time learned to know that cold climates far antedate the coming of the dicotyledons.
From Fossil Ice Crystals An Instance of the Practical Value of "Pure Science" by Johan August Udden
The thought that a 17-game regular season was too long will someday seem as quaint and antedated as the Christmas Eve playoff matchups of the mid-1970s.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
“The Negro church may be said to have antedated the Negro family on American soil,” wrote the early 20th-century scholar W.E.B.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2021
Indeed, they appear to represent an evolutionary branching that far antedated the common ancestor of all true bacteria.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 1, 2013
Swift, of course, antedated Edmund Burke, whose conception of "great objects and terrible" gave birth to the Romantic notions of the psychologised sublime.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2010
They antedated those sparkling full-lengths by nearly fifteen years.
From Romney by C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind
Hardly a day goes by on ADS-L, the email discussion list of the American Dialect Society, without someone reporting an antedating of some word or another.
From Time ● Jul. 6, 2015
I always think of them as mysteriously antedating London itself, and having been plonked down there for two long millenniums while the concrete and clay built up around them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2012
WMC points out that the chief trouble is still an old one, antedating the war: doctors are not proportionally distributed.
From Time Magazine Archive
This powerful king warred with Scotland and France; At Crecy and Poietiers, his son, the Black Prince, Gained victory and glory, but early expires, His death by one year antedating his sire's.
From Time Magazine Archive
The system is evidently an ancient one, long antedating the immunologic sensing of familiar or foreign forms of life by the antibodies on which we now depend so heavily for our separateness.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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30 GRE Words Beginning with "A"
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: ante, anti
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