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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

Because they predate written records of their use and were not known to exist until after the date of the Mary Rose’s sinking, the navigational instruments that were excavated are also extremely important.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

The name Ontario itself predates both the United States and Canada and has Indigenous origins.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

This divide, between businesses focused on repeatability, and those who promise a more artisanal, human-fronted experience, predates robotics.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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 Milan-based fashion house called its results "solid" amid a general slump in the luxury sector that predates the war in the Middle East.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 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 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

Waller said core inflation—which excludes volatile food and energy prices—has risen from 3% in December to 3.4% in May, and said the increase predated the Iran war’s energy shock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Another composition, Moonlight in Hawaii, predated a Hollywood film of the same name by several years.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

Games, books, old news programs that predated the sun flares.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

These ancient sea creatures have lived in the oceans for more than 500 million years, predating dinosaurs and trees.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

It lost $2 billion in 2001, with the vast majority of its problems predating the Sept. 11 attacks.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 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