Sentence examples for predates from inspiring English sources

The idea for the latter probably predates recorded history, while digital currencies are in the midst of radically redefining the very meaning of the concept, and in the very earliest stages of what could prove to be an enormous shakeout in the way global financial systems function today.

She has conceded that corruption is deeply entrenched in Malawi, but said that it predates her tenure by years.

Forget the kingfisher, mute swan or hen harrier, it has to be a magpie; loud, cocky, bit of a geezer, always on the lookout for something to nick, it fills its nest with cheap, gaudy tat and predates on its smaller neighbours.

Aired in 2001, Iannucci's skit predates the real property frenzy: those months when the Mail and the Express would take turns in sticking a house-price survey on their front pages; the stories about first-time buyers being offered 50-, 100-year mortgages.

The only way to sum up how people feel is the French word écoeuré – which means to be disgusted, physically sick, but also in its oldest sense, the first usage which predates the French revolution, to be "sick at heart".

The two politicians said they hoped their visit – and a potential new inquiry – would provide a wider lens on patterns of abuse inside the Chicago police department, which has led to millions in taxpayer-funded civil-rights settlements and a reparations movement that long predates demonstrations centered on Homan Square.

"I cannot possibly navigate these uncharted Fourth Amendment waters using as my North Star a case that predates the rise of cell phones," he writes.Intelligence officials argue that the more haystacks they can paw through, the more needles they'll find.