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Recent Examples of predated
Boise State opened this season at USF in Tampa, Florida, and last season at Georgia Southern in Statesboro, games that predated his tenure in being scheduled.
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Idaho Statesman, 7 Nov. 2025
Before Dred Scott The role of the Supreme Court in legitimizing slavery and embedding the narrative of racial hierarchy in the legal system long predated Dred Scott and continued long afterward.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
The halls all predated the 1874 refounding of Hertford College.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 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
The juror said the post predated her selection to the panel.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
Yellowstone even predated the 2019 re-merging of CBS and Viacom, which formed the company that in 2022 was rebranded as Paramount Global.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
Multiple employees also told the attorneys that their difficult relationships with Youngquist predated his time on the school board and extended back to his time working for the district as a principal or in another capacity.
—Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
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.
—Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Idaho Statesman, 7 Nov. 2025
Before Dred Scott The role of the Supreme Court in legitimizing slavery and embedding the narrative of racial hierarchy in the legal system long predated Dred Scott and continued long afterward.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
The halls all predated the 1874 refounding of Hertford College.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 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
The juror said the post predated her selection to the panel.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
Yellowstone even predated the 2019 re-merging of CBS and Viacom, which formed the company that in 2022 was rebranded as Paramount Global.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
Multiple employees also told the attorneys that their difficult relationships with Youngquist predated his time on the school board and extended back to his time working for the district as a principal or in another capacity.
—Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
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.
—Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predated
preceded
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During his appearance on Adin Ross’ Kick channel on Wednesday, the rainbow-haired rapper reflected on his rise to fame, stating that his breakout moments preceded the invention of TikTok.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
6 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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“Predated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predated. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.
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