predate

Example Sentences

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Hispanic communities along Route 66 in New Mexico predate the highway by centuries.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

However, a lot of these measures, including diversification of energy imports, a push towards electrification and tech self-sufficiency, predate Trump's second term, Mazur said.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Those numbers, too, will predate the Iran conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Then again, scroll through Carpenter’s many red carpet snapshots and Miss Piggy’s ever-expanding Instagram feed, and you may recognize the similarities predate the special by several years.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 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