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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

South Africa's laws prohibiting hate speech and incitement to violence mostly predate modern social media platforms, said Kimal Harvey, an attorney at the Legal Resources Centre.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 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

It also predates last year's National Insurance rise.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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

Use of the word “upset” in this sense predates that race.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

As I reported in 2019, many of those arrangements turned out to be exaggerated or bogus, or predated Trump’s claim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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

The cocktail that broke the internet predated the release of his foray into food TV: “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.”

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

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

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

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