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The current legal framework extends back to the 1980s, but the precedent for admitting refugees to the U.S. predates that.
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Sophie Hills, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025
Baltimore’s crucial natural gas infrastructure includes underground pipes that predate Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency.
—Harley Flack, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2025
The only thing that predates Berns’ obsession with music is his passion for the Knicks.
—James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
The dire wolf predated the Grateful Dead by about 2 million years, a period when the species rambled around this part of the world before vanishing around 10,000 BCE.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2025
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Sophie Hills, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025
Baltimore’s crucial natural gas infrastructure includes underground pipes that predate Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency.
—Harley Flack, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2025
The only thing that predates Berns’ obsession with music is his passion for the Knicks.
—James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
The dire wolf predated the Grateful Dead by about 2 million years, a period when the species rambled around this part of the world before vanishing around 10,000 BCE.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2025
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For most of the preceding four decades, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, had governed unopposed, and people were beginning to demand greater freedoms.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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The annexation formed the backdrop to a war in Ukraine's Donbas region which preceded Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Predate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predate. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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