predated in English
this letter predates her illness
A further 13 % were predated or scavenged during the shooting season (some of which may have been shot but not picked up).
Use "predated" in a sentence
1. Of course, talking books for the blind predated all this technology.
2. 11 The Bible’s accurate statement predated Aristotle by over 1,100 years.
3. We know that some of man's close ancestors predated the Pleistocene.
4. This early agreement predated the Ivy League by exactly half a century.
5. And that predated cable, before nonstop sports were all over the tube.
6. The praetor's office predated the Aedilian machinery for Roman administration outside of Rome
7. Synonyms for Antedated include preceded, predated, anticipated, forewent, foregone, anteceded, went before, gone before, preexisted and accelerated
8. Amatory fiction is considered by many to have predated the novel, and perhaps precipitated the romance novel.
9. They were known as Boone’s Almshouses and predated the beautiful ones behind, known as Merchant Taylors Almshouses by 140 years.
10. Allosaurus, which predated Tyrannosaurus Rex by some 85 million years, was the largest land predator of the late Jurassic Period
11. Use of the term "podcast" predated Apple's addition of formal support for podcasting to the iPod, or its iTunes software.
12. Part of the original purpose of banks , and the goldsmiths that predated them , was to offer customers safe keeping for their money .
13. Former DHS secretary Jeh Johnson said in an interview with the Aspen Institute that the concept of “Cages” predated the Trump administration
14. Because the Constitution predated the federal criminal code, the meaning of “Bribery” referenced in the Impeachment Clause cannot be found in the statutory prohibition on Bribery
15. However, there is a thought that since the RIC predated the BRICS, we need to adjust RIC interactions taking into account the BRICS and its emergence.
16. Although the decline in Antedated seems to mirror the rise in predated, a confounding variable is at work: use of predated as a past tense of predate in the sense of "acted as a predator upon"—a meaning that Merriam-Webster as yet does not officially acknowledge, but that is not at all rare in recent Google Books matches such as this one
17. He said he was the most Criticised President in the world at the moment because his critics failed to understand that the country’s current challenges predated his administration.
18. They sat around on what predated these couches, hacking on Reddit, and when they sold Reddit they threw a giant party, and then all flew out to California the next day, and left the keys with me.
19. 1 day ago · In a Counterclaim filed last week, Denver Pavilions OwnerCo LLC — the owner of the Denver Pavilions Mall — said the Florida-based restaurant’s struggles predated the coronavirus, and Hard Rock “is using the pandemic as a pretext in a cynical attempt to cut costs company-wide.”