antedate

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

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2017

These stones antedate even the long-ago, medieval world in which this “Macbeth” is set.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2014

Robert Hooke, not long after, suggested that the fossil record would form the basis for a chronology that would “far antedate ... even the very pyramids.”

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2013

A little matter like d�tente is no reason for the espionage establishments of the world to change business habits that antedate the recent unpleasantness between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

From Time Magazine Archive

As regards influences from the north-west and west, Joyce considers that intercourse between Yucatan and Western Cuba was confined to occasional trading voyages and did not long antedate the arrival of the Spaniards.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court