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

A little matter like d�tente is no reason for the espionage establishments of the world to change business habits that antedate the recent unpleasantness between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had a day off in Beyrout, and went up to Lebanon, inland, where the cedars seem to antedate the olive-trees in the Garden of Gethsemane.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis