predate
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Bill Clinton was beside other past presidents at Ground Zero in New York, but his two White House terms predate the attacks.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Laura Nee, catchment officer for the South East Rivers Trust, said the non-native species "predate on about one animal per day".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
But many such laws predate modern prediction markets and haven’t necessarily been tested in court recently.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
Their experiments suggest that the attraction to crystals may have deep evolutionary origins that predate modern humans.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Had the king had them carved when he built the clock tower, or did they predate it?
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
The idea of mining online conversations for clues about drug safety predates today's AI boom.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
That fits a pattern which predates his spell in Germany.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
And as we get into subsequent episodes that we’re dealing with now, we see that Robby’s sense of loss predates Louie and his mentor, Adamson, and it goes back to almost an original sin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Every initiative of Musk’s that succeeded predates the pandemic.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The fact that the source of this expression predates Newton and was picked up by him for his own purposes only reinforces Faulkner’s compelling argument.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Mandeep Singh, a senior industry analyst for technology at Bloomberg Intelligence, said worries about destructive AI predated large language models like Anthropic’s Claude.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
She predated our overheated era of cable-news slapfights as a massive star and national treasure who never took herself too seriously.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
The company is also staring down lawsuits from people and school districts that predated the settlement and are set to go to trial soon, the Times reports.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
The arrival of both ships in America predated the English Civil War, which lasted from 1642 to 1651.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
But de Vries’s conjecture predated the molecular definition of the gene.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
“Notably lacking” were “educational philosophies predating the 20th century, or much focus on the elements and principles of classical liberal arts education.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
It lost $2 billion in 2001, with the vast majority of its problems predating the Sept. 11 attacks.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
Survey response rates have dramatically declined External link in recent years, predating the Covid-19 pandemic.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
The two have stayed true to the venue’s spirit while nurturing its growth, so much so that many of its Belly Up’s employees have worked there for decades, with some predating the current ownership.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
In Portugal, a survey was made of 400 skeletons from the period immediately predating the Agricultural Revolution.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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