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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

Those tests predate modern technology, as many court reporters now use audio recordings as a backup, says Allie Hall, a certified court reporter who runs a training program with about 800 enrollees currently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 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

Yet if human folly predates the decline of reading, the atrophy of this splendid activity is no less lamentable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The problem predates recent federal cuts challenging higher education, he said, emphasizing a decline in public trust in universities and affirming that USC is well placed to address it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 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

The Milan-based fashion house called its results "solid" amid a general slump in the luxury sector that predates the war in the Middle East.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 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

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

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 creditor’s note was purportedly signed by Roan and was dated “Jany, 1921”; this was important, because it indicated that the note predated efforts to obtain the insurance, giving legitimacy to Hale’s claim.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

On 13 March 2025, bulldozers demolished homes in Gishiri, an indigenous community predating the FCT.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

It lost $2 billion in 2001, with the vast majority of its problems predating the Sept. 11 attacks.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

Survey response rates have dramatically declined External link in recent years, predating the Covid-19 pandemic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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