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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of predate.

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Examples

  • Therefore, when the pope dies, of course, to avoid that anybody gets a hold of that ring and starts issuing documents in his name predated perhaps, they destroy the ring.

    CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2005 2005

  • This astonished me, because I had never before seen any indication that the term черносотенцы, chernosotentsy, in Russian predated the twentieth century.

    languagehat.com: BLACK HUNDREDS. 2005

  • In 1958, he became president of Sar-A-Lee Inc., a Cleveland-based salad-dressing manufacturer whose name predated the baking titan.

    He and His Wife Wrote the Pricing Bible 2008

  • Of course, she had it easy: Her name change predated the social media wave, and she made the switch before accumulating nearly 70,000 followers across Twitter and Facebook.

    Forbes.com: News Daily Muse 2011

  • BEILENSON: What we're doing, actually, we kind of predated what the CDC is now recommending.

    CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2004 2004

  • Some of the things that John was talking about it, it seem like improvements for the second half of the fiscal year, this is a very seasonal business and I'm wondering has the inventory ship already sailed and the marketing plans already kind of predated John and his improvements, whatever he was talking about there.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

  • Some of the things that John was talking about it, it seem like improvements for the second half of the fiscal year, this is a very seasonal business and I'm wondering has the inventory ship already sailed and the marketing plans already kind of predated John and his improvements, whatever he was talking about there.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

  • Some of the things that John was talking about it, it seem like improvements for the second half of the fiscal year, this is a very seasonal business and I'm wondering has the inventory ship already sailed and the marketing plans already kind of predated John and his improvements, whatever he was talking about there.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

  • Some of the things that John was talking about it, it seem like improvements for the second half of the fiscal year, this is a very seasonal business and I'm wondering has the inventory ship already sailed and the marketing plans already kind of predated John and his improvements, whatever he was talking about there.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

  • Some of the things that John was talking about it, it seem like improvements for the second half of the fiscal year, this is a very seasonal business and I'm wondering has the inventory ship already sailed and the marketing plans already kind of predated John and his improvements, whatever he was talking about there.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

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