predate
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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
US reservations about the court predate the Trump.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 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
Moral outrage at the behaviour of young people is nothing new and predates the invention of e-bikes by a considerable margin.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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 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
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
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
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
These ancient sea creatures have lived in the oceans for more than 500 million years, predating dinosaurs and trees.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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
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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