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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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 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

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

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

Hickman, now owned by meatpacking giant JBS and Brazilian egg supplier Mantiqueira, said the alleged conduct predated their late-2025 acquisition of the company, but that the settlement resolves all allegations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

I had a secret obsession with them that predated my days at Lynbrook.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

But there is also a shift predating the AI boom that has quietly persisted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The play is clearly the property of another era — an era predating even when the work was written.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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

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