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predate | American Dictionary

predate
verb[ T ]
us/priˈdeɪt/
to have existed or happened before another thing:
These burial mounds predated the arrival of Europeans in North America.

Examples of predate

predate
This consciousness is historically grounded, giving recognition and value to a form of society and collective identity which predates the nation-state.
Its very formlessness is cited as a badge of authenticity since it predates culture, even informs and decides it.
This hardback edition of the book was published in 2000 and the literature cited obviously predates publication.
First, culture may be an ancestral state predating the cetacean split from their terrestrial ancestors.
Mean abundance of o flowers and fruits per plant and mean number of aborted, predated, and surviving seeds per fruit were estimated.
Biases in the fossil record can be due to features or mechanisms predating or postdating the collecting or during the collection process itself.
The stationary theory, which predated the finite-horizon one, can be obtained as a limiting case of the above, with some care though.
Much of this research predated related work in statistics and elsewhere.
The assumed link between the rule of law and economic development predates the current round of judicial reform.
A sharp and significant decline in age at diagnosis was found, predating echocardiography.
Nests in open-canopy forest were least predated (16.7%), with predation in rural areas (58.3%) being higher than in closed-canopy forest (32.8%).
This activity in fact predates the radical sectarianism of the past quarter century, though it has no doubt contributed to it.
The authors conclude that difficulties in establishing relationships predate schizophrenia.
Moreover, much of this information predates recent advances in paediatric care.
Furthermore, given that important social-cognitive developments predate language, it seems plausible that those will form the basis for the child's grammar.
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