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predate

[ pree-deyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, pre·dat·ed, pre·dat·ing.

to date before the actual time; antedate:
He predated the check by three days.
to precede in date:
a house that predates the Civil War.

predate

/ priːˈdeɪt /

to affix a date to (a document, paper, etc) that is earlier than the actual date
to assign a date to (an event, period, etc) that is earlier than the actual or previously assigned date of occurrence
to be or occur at an earlier date than; precede in time

Origin of predate¹

First recorded in 1860–65; pre- + date ¹

But he appears to have been a 32-year-old native of Quebec with a history of legal troubles that predate his radicalization.

“Parents can be reassured with the finding that sexting may predate sexual behavior,” said Dr. Temple.

Widespread greed, corruption, and sexual violence predate economic liberalization in 1991.

"The issues at stake in Bahrain predate the Arab Spring," Husain said in an interview with The Daily Beast.

Most of these pieces predate Cleopatra VII but give a stunning sense of her Alexandria.

Does a discovery or invention predate a change in scale, or is the new scale a result of it or of several related phenomena?

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