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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

Meanwhile, some of the victories the division has claimed predate its work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

Because they predate written records of their use and were not known to exist until after the date of the Mary Rose’s sinking, the navigational instruments that were excavated are also extremely important.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

"The BBC will bring it back because it's an old brand, it predates us by decades," Hammond said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The distinguished military college designation predates World War I but was dropped in the mid-20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

But the relationship between the two countries "long predates the acquisition of Manchester City and has developed across diplomacy, commerce, education, and security," said Thani.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

We don’t know for sure, but they may have arrived at this choice using logic that predates you.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 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

The erosion also predated the war, which began in late February.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Soon, Braun would find Kelly in his office with the lights dimmed, and blurry plays that predated the personal computer flashing across Kelly’s flat-screen TV.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Dozens of people were convicted in connection with a sprawling, $250-million children’s food assistance scheme that predated this administration, though more charges have been announced in recent months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

The first written human stories were about fairies, suggesting that their civilization predated man’s own.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

“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

The play, which takes place in the period predating smartphones, offers a microcosm of American life, not unlike the Grover’s Corners of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” before our brains were all rewired.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

On 13 March 2025, bulldozers demolished homes in Gishiri, an indigenous community predating the FCT.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

It lost $2 billion in 2001, with the vast majority of its problems predating the Sept. 11 attacks.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

Moreover, there was an even more elemental understanding implicitly codified in Philadelphia but actually predating the Constitutional Convention by many years.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis