Be there before

Usage examples of predate.

Her recent experiments had shown they were far more primitive than anyone realized, throwbacks that predated even the narrow-leaved mono cot grasses.

Since their residency on Selva predates that of the colonists, they cannot be removed from the planet without their consent, according to regulation 3144.

It predated all else, its severe architecture throughly alien and strangely unwelcoming.

Dekhron reminded Alucius of Hieron, because the causeway clearly predated much of the trade section close to the river, and ramps and inclined roads had been built later to connect to the eternastone surface.

The Lupercalian festival was an ancient fertility rite whose origins are lost in antiquity and probably predate civilization.

When the ashes blew away, they saw that which had not been seen in 10,000 years, predating both Tiahuanaco and Giza, according to the time wizards.

From hospitals, resistant superbugs travel to old-age homes and day-care centers, predating on the old and the very young.

If they found conclusive evidence that chiral asymmetry predated life on Earth, it would be a landmark achievement in exobiology, since so far the chiral nature of organic compounds on Earth was a sure signature of life.

Jim Gaither acted with coolness and dispatch to protect us, by providing us with official journalists, documents predated to 1939, accrediting us to Life magazzine, which has in fact published a couple of.

One_ postdated Dada and predated Surrealism, thereby providing a one-man bridge between the two major art movements of this century.

Although the rise of this crime wave long predated crack, the trend was so exacerbated by crack that criminologists got downright apocalyptic in their predictions.

My Notebooks told me about actuarial tables, devices for predicting death rates, that even predated human spaceflight.

Subsection Forty-Two specifically provided for wartime trials of individuals for alleged violation of local laws (in this case the Peeps' own UCC, since Hell had been sovereign territory of the People's Republic of Haven at the time) predating their capture, but prohibited ex post facto trials under the municipal law of whoever captured them.

It was impossible to judge their record on these ancient bursts, predating even flesher gamma-ray astronomy, but if it turned out that they'd correctly anticipated the time of Lac G-1's collision, they'd have shown themselves to be extraordinarily trustworthy forecasters.

The arks preserve such fragmentary codes as have been recovered from human specimens thousands of years old, from Terran genepools predating the development of genebanks in the 20th century, from the last pre-mixing genepools of the motherworld, and from remains both animal and human preserved through centuries of natural freezing and other circumstances which have preserved some internal cellular structure.