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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

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

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 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 economists argue the rupee's troubles predate the war and cannot be solved through austerity alone.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

There are Mesopotamian inscriptions referring to Venus that predate the time when Velikovsky says Venus changed from a comet into a planet.’

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

In fact, the process far predates the modern primary and was long a staple of how parties chose candidates.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

The site has been dated to about 5,000 years old, which predates Stonehenge by 500 years.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

“In some cases, the improvement in demand predates the conflict, but recent geopolitical developments have reinforced the trend,” analysts wrote.

From Barron's ● May 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

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

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

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

In an interview, Rose-Perfito, 29, argued that the speed running trend predated the dare post and rejected the legal threat from Scientology.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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

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

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

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

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

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025

Moreover, there was an even more elemental understanding implicitly codified in Philadelphia but actually predating the Constitutional Convention by many years.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis