The contract pre-dated the merger by two years, causing confusion about which terms applied.

The original manuscript pre-dates the printed edition by several decades.

The audit revealed that the document included several pre-dates, which complicated the verification of when transactions actually occurred.

The historian argued that the inscription, pre-dating the emperor's reign, must have been created by an earlier dynasty.

To comply with audit requirements, she refused to pre-date the invoice.

The editor suggested using pre-date as a noun to indicate the act of assigning an earlier date to a document.