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Example sentences for: predated

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We used SLC4A family members to test the hypothesis that the origin and repeated duplication of the EGF-FGF cluster predated the human-mouse divergence.
( The Wall Street Journal 's Alix Freedman subsequently published a fuller account that also predated Wigand.)
Interestingly, this confluence immediately predated Lichtenstein's entrée into the world of the comic book image, but the relationship seems to be coincidental in view of the iconographic symbolism of his choices.
Born in Birmingham, the stronghold of British industrialism, Burne-Jones was the son of a gilder and framer whose handicraft traditions predated the Industrial Revolution.
(Their 1969 Super Bowl triumph under Joe Namath predated the AFL-NFL merger.)