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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

He has two pensions because they predate the merger of SAG, the film actors' union, and AFTRA, for television actors, in 2012.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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 BBC will bring it back because it's an old brand, it predates us by decades," Hammond said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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

His tenure predates the formation of Inspire, becoming Arby’s CEO in 2013 after Roark first acquired the roast-beef sandwich chain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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

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

Drum towers and half-moons held up better against catapults, since thrown stones were more apt to deflect off a curved wall, but Raventree predated that particular bit of builder’s wisdom.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“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

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

Survey response rates have dramatically declined External link in recent years, predating the Covid-19 pandemic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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