PREDATES Synonyms: 8 Similar and Opposite Words

predates

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present tense third-person singular of predate

as in precedes

to go or come before in time gunpowder predated the invention of the gun by several centuries

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Recent Examples of predates Agarwal’s technical background predates the current fascination with generative AI. — Ethan Stone, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Their decades-long friendship predates fame and has endured through years of creative collaboration in music, business ventures and personal milestones. — ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026 The Apology‘s pickup predates the hiring of Peter Rice, THR is told. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026 Loy said her opposition to the system predates the recent clashes with the Supreme Court. — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 15 Oct. 2026 That predates our ownership of the stock, which began in April. — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 Venezuela government contracts Pulido, born in Bogotá in 1963, has a history that predates his emergence as one of the businessmen accused of profiting from Venezuela’s government contracting system. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026 But many of the implications of Khot’s original conjecture already followed from this 4-to-1 version — most notably, a new result about the difficulty of a classic graph-coloring problem that predates Khot’s work by decades. — Quanta Magazine, 7 Oct. 2026 In fact, the concept predates large language models (LLMs); by the 2000s, researchers were studying it as a way to increase efficiency for neural networks. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

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The result is a synthetic rhythm section—a voice mimicking a synthesizer that mimics a bass guitar—that precedes a very human chorus from Please, who does not sing so much as plead, several octaves higher.

— Samuel Hyland, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2026
The announcement precedes the inaugural edition of Frieze Abu Dhabi, which will take place from November 19-22 in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

— News Desk, Artforum, 19 Oct. 2026

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