The term originated around the 1920s, though the practice probably predates that.
The practice of labelling the infringement of exclusive rights in creative works as "piracy" predates statutory copyright law.
Yet the practice of avoiding outside conflicts predates Franco.
The practice predates the Bush administration, however, and has since been continued by the Obama administration.
The practice predated her and had become part of a tradition people resisted changing.
The practice of building sessha and massha shrines within a jinja predates written history.
The practice of magic did predate modem advances.
Many scholars believe that the practice predates the 13th century.
The practice of using two-digit dates for convenience predates computers, but was never a problem until stored dates were used in calculations.
The human practice of masking, whether for ritualistic, cultural or practical reasons, predates the origin of class societies by thousands of years.
