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After all, the U.S. was withdrawing from a two-decade war that it had lost and an attempt at nation-building that had gone poorly — a legacy of failure that long predated Trump.

Although Jordan Mechner is most famous for creating the Prince of Persia series, Karateka predated that franchise and trailblazing narrative and animation in video games.

Among study participants, substance abuse and issues with mental health were common and predated becoming homeless.

Despite a very similar origin and similar color pallet to Kang, Rama-Tut actually predated the conqueror's first appearance, and the two were initially meant to be separate characters.

Effectively the equivalent of the "Super-Pet" concept that would dominate in the Silver Age, he predated Krypto the Superdog and Ace the Bathound.

He said: “Don’t forget that the two by-elections were caused by legacy issues that predated Rishi Sunak of course.

In response, the wife countered that their disagreements had predated her pregnancy, and she had hesitated to conceive to avoid further hurtful comments from her husband.

Instead, they were traveling the Multiverse in tech that predated what Miguel O'Hara would create.

It predated any other grant in what was to become Gorham.

McGraw’s hiring by the prior commission predated that of Bowden-Lewis and was against the wishes of the division’s professional staff.

Mountain lions tend to go after old and sick mule deer, so predated infected deer cannot then spread the disease.

Her initial assessment indicated that roughly half were predated by feral hogs.

It was a period that just predated the invention of the printing press when parchment from animal skins was the still the preferred writing material.

Last year the trustees indicated that Cal State spends $1.5 billion less than it should to adequately educate its students — a figure that predated the austerity measures that may be on the horizon.

A meteorite that crashed into rural southeastern Australia in a fireball in 1969 contained the oldest material ever found on Earth, stardust that predated the formation of our solar system by billi.

Brilliant predated Noon in integrating a touch panel with a smart switch, and this smart dimmer has some very cool tricks up its sleeve, ranging from being able to stream video from a doorbell camera to controlling a Sonos multi-room audio system.

But Dr. Bright was largely sidelined by personal disputes with Mr. Kadlec and his aides, some of which long predated the coronavirus, the documents suggest.

But in each case, the problem predated these events.

But tests on thousands of bone fragments determined the remains long predated Emanuela's disappearance, the most recent ones having been interred about 100 years ago.

But those evangelicals’ alignment with the Republican Party predated Trump and has risen steadily since 2009, according to data from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.