Antedate in a sentence as a verb

As such, American coleslaw has a history of roughly 390 years and antedates American caselaw by a few decades.

My library research turned up the surprising fact that this alternative approach actually antedates the O-notation itself.

The DoH service we're using is likely more private than anything the user is currently using.> It isn't explicit right now that using nightly means opting in to participating in studies like this, and I think the text of the download page antedates our ability to do those studies.

Antedate definitions

verb

be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"

See also: predate precede forego forgo antecede

verb

establish something as being earlier relative to something else

See also: predate foredate