predates
Antonyms
Examples
Musical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts we have found. ...Music predates agriculture in the history of our species.
Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema. There's always been fame, there's always been the caveman who's prettier or killed a bigger lion, or somebody started a story about a guy.
A CD imported via a digital connection does not have the SMCS bits (as the format predates it), but the recording MD recorder treats any signal where the SMCS bits are missing as protected and original.
Although the Kebra Nagast is the best-known account of this belief, it predates the document.
"All of us as Sub-Saharan African nations feel this brotherhood that binds us very deeply, for it is a brotherhood that predates our colonial borders and transcends our individual statehood.