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Their experiments suggest that the attraction to crystals may have deep evolutionary origins that predate modern humans.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

“In our view, the key to the current policy stance in Norway is that inflation concerns predate this spring’s energy price volatility,” ING foreign exchange strategist Francesco Pesole said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Other buyers would say, however, that such issues long predate the current soccer bonanza.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

But Kamran Bokhari, senior fellow at the Middle East Policy Council, said Iran's economic struggles, which predate the war, could hamper efforts to fully rebuild military capability.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

It is not impossible to imagine priority disputes without the printing press, but in fact there are no priority disputes that we know of which predate printing.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Every initiative of Musk’s that succeeded predates the pandemic.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

But his wish list of non-woke repertory, which also included Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera, draws on an attachment that predates his entry into national politics: Broadway musicals.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Each day thousands of visitors pile into the area to hike through pristine jungle to white-sand beaches or to Colombia's mountaintop Lost City, which predates Peru's Machu Picchu.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

Iran’s economic meltdown predates the war, crippled by years of U.S. and international sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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 arrival of both ships in America predated the English Civil War, which lasted from 1642 to 1651.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

His keen interest in the power of image far predated his rise to power.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

The author emphasizes that by the 1950s, approximately 90% of Cuba’s mines were owned by U.S. companies, demonstrating a longstanding pattern of American economic domination that predated the rise of Fidel Castro and communism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

The Luddite movement, which predated the Swing Riots, was led by textile workers convinced that power-operated looms would permanently impoverish the middle class.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

But de Vries’s conjecture predated the molecular definition of the gene.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

My father died leaving an old will predating his fourth wife.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025

The two have stayed true to the venue’s spirit while nurturing its growth, so much so that many of its Belly Up’s employees have worked there for decades, with some predating the current ownership.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

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