Example Sentences

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The H200 — a Hopper-generation chip that predates Nvidia’s current Blackwell platform by a full architectural generation — is the most advanced hardware Washington has agreed to license for Chinese buyers.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

Jim Beam, which predates the Civil War and weathered Prohibition—and is now owned by Japan’s Suntory Holdings—is fighting through another downturn.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

But according to oral tradition, the tree predates both.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Maybe the excuses we make for warfare aren’t as complex as they seem, though the practice itself obviously predates written history.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

Use of the word “upset” in this sense predates that race.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand