antedate

Example Sentences

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The thought that a 17-game regular season was too long will someday seem as quaint and antedated as the Christmas Eve playoff matchups of the mid-1970s.

From New York Times

This selection, which includes several cartoons that antedate the age of Trump, showcases several modes.

From Washington Post

The system is evidently an ancient one, long antedating the immunologic sensing of familiar or foreign forms of life by the antibodies on which we now depend so heavily for our separateness.

From Literature

Yet war antedates the state, diplomacy and strategy by many millennia.

From Literature

Hardly a day goes by on ADS-L, the email discussion list of the American Dialect Society, without someone reporting an antedating of some word or another.

From Time