to predate
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5.8
- verb
- /ˌpriːˈdeɪt/
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preceder
- The ancient ruins in the valley predate the arrival of the first settlers.
- predate recorded history
- predate the arrival
- predate the conquest
Is this, does this not predate NATO expansion?
- Is this, does this not predate NATO expansion?
- In fact, these ambitions, they predate Vladimir Putin himself.
- These microbes have predated humans by a mile.
- But this my expertise, such as it was, totally predates that development.
- She became president of the Boston Bar Association, whose origins predate our nation's founding.
- Yeah, exchanging sex for something of value predates us as a species.
- To go outside of the Western Greek tradition and to even perhaps predate some of that.
- The origin of money predates coins.
- OK, so then NAFTA predated Greenspan.
- So now, is it possible then that it's kind of a platform that predates all of us?
- He talks about the idea that effectively digital currencies predate physical currencies.
- The government was already working on the Committee on Climate Change process that predated Extinction Rebellion forming.
- Now, if you are in a narcissistic relationship, the self talk may have long predated the relationship.
Examples
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The program predates my arrival at the Agency.
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Tensions between Algeria and Morocco predate the dispute over the Western Sahara.
Academic text (1995) -
Okay, so they predate the fossil record.
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Is this, does this not predate NATO expansion?
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Your design predates all existing guidance systems.
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She became president of the Boston Bar Association, whose origins predate our nation's founding.
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Flower art, however, has a long history in Mesoamerica, with origins that predate the conquest.
Academic text (2011) -
Many Jewish communities in the Arab states predated the Muslim conquest of the Middle East by hundreds of years.
Academic text (2013) -
It predates the discovery of tobacco by about 200 years.
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This artifact clearly predates the establishment of the museum.
Synonyms
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4.1
Happen before something else in time or order
98
3.6
To happen earlier than another thing in time or position
95
3.0
To come from an earlier time
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3.4
To exist since a certain time in the past
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6.9
To be present before a certain time or event
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7.2
To come before something in time
1
8.7
To happen before another event or to put an earlier date on something
To happen before something else in time
Put an earlier day on a document than its real one
To be older than another thing in time
Antonyms
How Early
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Predate comes from pre- 'before' and date 'a day or time', so it literally means to come before something in time and is used when one thing happened earlier than another.