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Recent Examples of predates
Block’s own headcount tripled from 3,835 employees at the end of 2019 to more than 12,000 at its peak — a run-up that predates any meaningful AI deployment inside the company.
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Cindy Rodriguez Constable,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
That law predates the much wider United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which took effect in 1994, giving ships the right of innocent passage through any country's territorial waters without paying a fee.
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Joanne Stocker,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Viewed from a distance, the pressure AI exerts on human artists appears as part of an evolutionary process that far predates its own invention.
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Tim Brinkhof,
Time,
26 June 2026
Both of those elements appear on the Sperry CVO, which is accepted as the first expressly made boat shoe and predates the Top Sider more commonly associated with the brand by a couple of years.
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Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
26 June 2026
The property, patented as a mining claim in the middle of the 19th century, predates the creation of the national forest, a spit of private land ringed by public woods northeast of Idaho City.
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Mark Dee,
Idaho Statesman,
25 June 2026
Alas, the problem long predates AI and runs much deeper.
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Austin Sarat,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Founded in 1949 and still family-owned, the 110-acre park predates Walt Disney World by over 20 years.
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Jacqueline Dole,
Southern Living,
22 June 2026
Good Morning, Miss Bliss predates the Disney Channel Original Series moniker, but the show remains a formative original show on the network.
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Christian Holub,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 June 2026
Cindy Rodriguez Constable,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
That law predates the much wider United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which took effect in 1994, giving ships the right of innocent passage through any country's territorial waters without paying a fee.
—
Joanne Stocker,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Viewed from a distance, the pressure AI exerts on human artists appears as part of an evolutionary process that far predates its own invention.
—
Tim Brinkhof,
Time,
26 June 2026
Both of those elements appear on the Sperry CVO, which is accepted as the first expressly made boat shoe and predates the Top Sider more commonly associated with the brand by a couple of years.
—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
26 June 2026
The property, patented as a mining claim in the middle of the 19th century, predates the creation of the national forest, a spit of private land ringed by public woods northeast of Idaho City.
—
Mark Dee,
Idaho Statesman,
25 June 2026
Alas, the problem long predates AI and runs much deeper.
—
Austin Sarat,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Founded in 1949 and still family-owned, the 110-acre park predates Walt Disney World by over 20 years.
—
Jacqueline Dole,
Southern Living,
22 June 2026
Good Morning, Miss Bliss predates the Disney Channel Original Series moniker, but the show remains a formative original show on the network.
—
Christian Holub,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predates
precedes
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Your mental exhaustion often precedes your physical limitations.
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Machine learning has identified systematic changes of microseismic activity that precedes large ruptures, and some studies of the physics of earthquakes have started to provide explanations of why that happens.
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