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Bill Clinton was beside other past presidents at Ground Zero in New York, but his two White House terms predate the attacks.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

He has two pensions because they predate the merger of SAG, the film actors' union, and AFTRA, for television actors, in 2012.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

It is not impossible to imagine priority disputes without the printing press, but in fact there are no priority disputes that we know of which predate printing.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But the relationship between the two countries "long predates the acquisition of Manchester City and has developed across diplomacy, commerce, education, and security," said Thani.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

We don’t know for sure, but they may have arrived at this choice using logic that predates you.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

His tenure predates the formation of Inspire, becoming Arby’s CEO in 2013 after Roark first acquired the roast-beef sandwich chain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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

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

Those episodes predated the current two waves of polygraphs in 2026 over sources for news stories about the U.S.’s dwindling munitions inventory during the Iran war.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Mandeep Singh, a senior industry analyst for technology at Bloomberg Intelligence, said worries about destructive AI predated large language models like Anthropic’s Claude.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

He said social touch was one of the oldest forms of communication and likely predated language.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

They were a danger; Ethel wanted them gone, but they had been his father’s and predated their residence in the house so Martin figured they could deny ownership.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

These ancient sea creatures have lived in the oceans for more than 500 million years, predating dinosaurs and trees.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

But there is also a shift predating the AI boom that has quietly persisted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 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

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