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A lot of what is unwieldy about Down Cemetery Road stems from the source novel, which predates the Slough House series and showcases a writer with an exceptional gift for dialogue and characterization but a more nascent sense of rudimentary storytelling.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Creating that 1973 album, which predated their time in Fleetwood Mac, brought them closer together as romantic partners.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
One of the coolest phenomenons—lights that defy a definitive scientific explanation—predate the park designation.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
The juror said the post predated her selection to the panel.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Creating that 1973 album, which predated their time in Fleetwood Mac, brought them closer together as romantic partners.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
One of the coolest phenomenons—lights that defy a definitive scientific explanation—predate the park designation.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
The juror said the post predated her selection to the panel.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predate
precede
Verb
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That three-game series precedes the Royals’ home opener at Kauffman Stadium on March 30 against the Minnesota Twins.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Nov. 2025
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Murphy and Roberston devote their first act to the series of Conference of the Parties (COP) summits that preceded the climactic negotiations in Kyoto in 1997, which instituted a framework, severely weakened by compromise, for international cooperation on reducing emissions.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Predate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predate. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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