Example Sentences

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Podchaser’s library may have predated Chella, but it takes a human to monitor such a system, coach people on how to contribute to it, and identify ways it could be better.

From The Verge • Jan. 18, 2022

Unfortunately, because its theory seems to have predated, and been awaiting, this moment, it takes a great amount of jamming to fit Lind’s peg into the hole of the present situation.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2020

From somewhere outside his ordered study, I got the impression that her understanding may have predated his.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2016

Matthew also had injuries that may have predated Ms. Woodward’s joining the Eappen family in Newton, outside Boston.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2015

The following entry from the Salon Haiku Contest, seems to have predated popular use of the term: Windows NT crashed.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.