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Recent Examples of predated
In a case that predated the Israel-Hamas war, the court said Israel abused its position as an occupying power and called on it to cease new settlement activity, evacuate settlers and make reparations for the damage caused.
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Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
The department's chief human capital officer, Rachel Borra, said that the plans had predated the shutdown.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Whereas Tsakiris, a homegrown product, predated Arena’s arrival, Martinez, the team’s leading goal scorer, was one of 13 players brought in by the new coach to debut this season.
—Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
Some experts cited previous waves of political violence, such as a spate of assassinations in the late 1960s, which predated online platforms.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2025
The divide between the Korean landed elite and the peasant masses that predated Japanese rule grew deeper and more complex as a result of colonial policies.
—Kornel Chang
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
That consideration predated Kennedy—who recently dismissed all sitting members of ACIP and installed a variety of vaccine skeptics in their place—and the rejiggered committee may not implement it.
—Jamie Ducharme, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
The Pro Pickleball Medal Tracker has now been updated with these results; check out this link online for a complete pro medal history for all tours and all pro events dating to the beginnings of all the major pro tours, plus pro events that predated 2020.
—Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
One target should be the parameters and constraints of the outdated Missile Technology Control Regime, which was designed to control missile technology proliferation and predated the drone world of today.
—Gary Roughead, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
The department's chief human capital officer, Rachel Borra, said that the plans had predated the shutdown.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Whereas Tsakiris, a homegrown product, predated Arena’s arrival, Martinez, the team’s leading goal scorer, was one of 13 players brought in by the new coach to debut this season.
—Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
Some experts cited previous waves of political violence, such as a spate of assassinations in the late 1960s, which predated online platforms.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2025
The divide between the Korean landed elite and the peasant masses that predated Japanese rule grew deeper and more complex as a result of colonial policies.
—Kornel Chang
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
That consideration predated Kennedy—who recently dismissed all sitting members of ACIP and installed a variety of vaccine skeptics in their place—and the rejiggered committee may not implement it.
—Jamie Ducharme, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
The Pro Pickleball Medal Tracker has now been updated with these results; check out this link online for a complete pro medal history for all tours and all pro events dating to the beginnings of all the major pro tours, plus pro events that predated 2020.
—Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
One target should be the parameters and constraints of the outdated Missile Technology Control Regime, which was designed to control missile technology proliferation and predated the drone world of today.
—Gary Roughead, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predated
preceded
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What’s perhaps less widely known is that it was preceded two decades earlier by the almost equally dramatic crash of 1907.—
Harvard Business Review,
Harvard Business Review,
23 Oct. 2025
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Walters tapped the president of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that published Project 2025 and the blueprints that preceded it, to help rewrite Oklahoma’s social studies standards.—
Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
22 Oct. 2025
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