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
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
There are Mesopotamian inscriptions referring to Venus that predate the time when Velikovsky says Venus changed from a comet into a planet.’
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The idea of mining online conversations for clues about drug safety predates today's AI boom.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
The name Ontario itself predates both the United States and Canada and has Indigenous origins.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 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
Use of the word “upset” in this sense predates that race.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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 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
A trend that predated COVID, but the pandemic cemented it.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
He said social touch was one of the oldest forms of communication and likely predated language.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
They were a danger; Ethel wanted them gone, but they had been his father’s and predated their residence in the house so Martin figured they could deny ownership.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
“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
Google is already the subject of several formal DMA probes, and was hit with a massive 2.95 billion euro fine in September 2025 in an EU competition case predating the digital law.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 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
Most importantly, alongside seas and rivers rich in seafood and waterfowl, humans set up permanent fishing villages—the first permanent settlements in history, long predating the Agricultural Revolution.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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