antedate
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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 Hind, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis)
Vocabulary lists containing antedate
30 GRE Words Beginning with "A"
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: ante, anti
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Before You Know It: Ante
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