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Changes in the backroom staff are inevitable, with fitness coach Lorenzo Buenaventura and goalkeeper coach Xabi Mancisidor, who actually predates Guardiola at City, also leaving next week.
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Sam Lee, New York Times, 19 May 2026
Economists at the New York Fed published their own analysis the same day, concluding that overall AI exposure shows little link to declining job postings—and the drop in postings for high-exposure roles actually predated ChatGPT entirely.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 May 2026
While its original structure predated Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem on land captured from Jordan in 1967, Abu Diab later added rooms to accommodate his growing family.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 19 May 2026
They’re called heirlooms because their seeds predate the grim march of industrial hybridization.
—Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 May 2026
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Sam Lee, New York Times, 19 May 2026
Economists at the New York Fed published their own analysis the same day, concluding that overall AI exposure shows little link to declining job postings—and the drop in postings for high-exposure roles actually predated ChatGPT entirely.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 May 2026
While its original structure predated Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem on land captured from Jordan in 1967, Abu Diab later added rooms to accommodate his growing family.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 19 May 2026
They’re called heirlooms because their seeds predate the grim march of industrial hybridization.
—Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predate
precede
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Why did that death in Bkejwanong, and the murder that preceded it, matter so much?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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New York Tendaberry, released in the fall of 1969, mostly consists of Nyro alone at the piano, delivering songs that eschewed and subverted most of the characteristics that had won her attention and adoration throughout the preceding decade.—
Sam Sodomsky,
Pitchfork,
24 May 2026
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“Predate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predate. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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