How to Use predate in a Sentence

predate

verb

• Most of the issues raised in the 2022 HUD report did predate Donald’s tenure.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• Their grief isn’t due only to the walkouts but also predates it.
  — Maria Prudente, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The sign predated the war by about a year, but now its message referred to the war, as did its language.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
• The 132-acre Stone Bridge Ranch, however, feels a world apart from any hubbub, predating much of what is now in the area.
  — Katharine Jose, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023
• Even though her charges predate the birth of her first child, they have been used against her in her custody disputes.
  — Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2022
• For one thing, the two men’s friendship predates Justice Thomas’s time on the federal bench.
  — Julie Tate, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Cox has served in the role since 2011, predating DeSantis.
  — Lori Rozsa, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2023
• Still, his career, like those of so many other artists who predated rock ‘n’ roll, took a dip.
  — Claudia Luther, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• Your work in this vein predates the recent surge in this kind of writing and reporting.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• But most of the chargers in these four states predate an unfulfilled promise to roll out 500 new charger ports by the end of last year.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2023
• The roots of the conflict and mistrust are deep and complex, predating the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• Does Joy — who expertly performs songs that predate her birth by 60 or more years — feel like an old soul in a young body?
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
• Roots of the conflict The roots of the conflict and mistrust are deep and complex, predating the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2023
• Some of LinkedIn’s momentum may predate the wave of layoffs.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 8 Jan. 2023
• One was for overgrown weeds that predated his tenure by two months.
  — Brian Eason, ajc, 16 Feb. 2023
• Dae is not one of the five victims in the case; his relationship with Miller predates the coronavirus cons.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023
• This free speech battle predates Elon Musk's ownership of the platform.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
• That friendship predated Johnson becoming a face of the brand in 2017.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 2 May 2023
• Many of the murals were painted in 2020, during the social unrest caused by the murder of George Floyd, although some of the pieces predate that summer.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2022
• Lin said that had nothing to do with her complaints, which long predated the new clinic.
  — Katie Thomas, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• The quest to study the sea and its storms predates Aristotle, who hypothesized that Earth’s oceans were frigid at the poles and too hot to inhabit near the Equator.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• Royal Mail, a mail delivery fixture in the U.K. for centuries, predates phones by 250 years.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 25 Jan. 2024
• That has certainly not been an abrupt change, but the signs have been quite apparent that the reformist era predating Xi is over.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
• But her career in food long predates the popular binge watch.
  — Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2023
• The structure was granted landmark status in 2022, and predates the Great Chicago Fire.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2023
• The decision predates last month's reveal of Leviss' months-long affair with costar Tom Sandoval.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• The new airplanes will be a shot in the arm for the Iranian air force, which has many jets that predate the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2023
• Wakanda Forever, like African folklores that predate it, is in conversation with the legacy of the past and the promise of the future.
  — Elizabeth Agyemang, Time, 10 Nov. 2022
• With various owners and companies involved – and with some maritime laws predating even the Titanic sinking – untangling the web, figuring out who owes what, and addressing the damages from both lives lost and to physical structures will be complex.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
• Women’s basketball has a glorious history that predates the NCAA’s involvement.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024