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
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
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 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
The forecast predates Apple’s making public its plans to boost pricing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
I don’t feel I’m being disloyal to Ben, only loyal to something else; which predates him, which has nothing to do with him.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Those episodes predated the current two waves of polygraphs in 2026 over sources for news stories about the U.S.’s dwindling munitions inventory during the Iran war.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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 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
He said social touch was one of the oldest forms of communication and likely predated language.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The creditor’s note was purportedly signed by Roan and was dated “Jany, 1921”; this was important, because it indicated that the note predated efforts to obtain the insurance, giving legitimacy to Hale’s claim.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
But there is also a shift predating the AI boom that has quietly persisted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 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
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
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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