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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

US reservations about the court predate the Trump.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 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

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

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

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

“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

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

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

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

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

And the message-board-born concept of a “lolcow,” a gullible user who can be goaded into making a fool of themselves on a regular basis, definitely predated the music video.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026

But de Vries’s conjecture predated the molecular definition of the gene.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Although his production had tailed off the past few years, Joey Bosa was a stalwart for this team since 2016, predating the club’s move to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 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