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predate

/pree-deyt/US // ˈpriˈdeɪt //UK // (priːˈdeɪt) //

前身,前期,早期的,早期

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pre·dat·ed, pre·dat·ing.

    • : to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
    • : to precede in date: a house that predates the Civil War.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbprecede

Examples

  • Cancellation is by no means sufficient to address the student debt crisis—which predates the pandemic—or reach all of the people the pandemic has hurt.

  • For one, his excursions predate the Age of Enlightenment for wildlife protection and conservation.

  • All were made in 2020, but some address concerns that far predate the pandemic.

  • The character herself, of course, predates that series by decades.

  • Although mail-in voting long predates the pandemic, the 2020 elections expanded access to it as Americans took advantage in vast numbers.

  • But he appears to have been a 32-year-old native of Quebec with a history of legal troubles that predate his radicalization.

  • “Parents can be reassured with the finding that sexting may predate sexual behavior,” said Dr. Temple.

  • Widespread greed, corruption, and sexual violence predate economic liberalization in 1991.

  • "The issues at stake in Bahrain predate the Arab Spring," Husain said in an interview with The Daily Beast.

  • Most of these pieces predate Cleopatra VII but give a stunning sense of her Alexandria.

  • Does a discovery or invention predate a change in scale, or is the new scale a result of it or of several related phenomena?