Examples of predate

• This consciousness is historically grounded, giving recognition and value to a form of society and collective identity which predates the nation-state.

• Its very formlessness is cited as a badge of authenticity since it predates culture, even informs and decides it.

• This hardback edition of the book was published in 2000 and the literature cited obviously predates publication.

• First, culture may be an ancestral state predating the cetacean split from their terrestrial ancestors.

• Mean abundance of o flowers and fruits per plant and mean number of aborted, predated, and surviving seeds per fruit were estimated.

• Biases in the fossil record can be due to features or mechanisms predating or postdating the collecting or during the collection process itself.

• The stationary theory, which predated the finite-horizon one, can be obtained as a limiting case of the above, with some care though.

• Much of this research predated related work in statistics and elsewhere.