Predate

Dinosaurs predate humans.

Both socialism and communism predate Karl Marx.

North Africa's Jewish communities predate Islam.

These trends predate the pandemic.

A transcendent God, like Allah or the Christian Trinity, exists outside spacetime, crafting it from nothing (ex nihilo). Extraterrestrials, no matter how godlike, likely evolved within the universe’s 13.8-billion-year history. Even if they predate humanity by eons or live in higher dimensions (a sci-fi staple), they’re bound by physicality or some form of existence tied to the cosmos. Could they fake transcendence? Maybe—imagine them projecting a voice from the sky or rewriting physics locally. But true transcendence implies being uncaused, eternal, and limitless, beyond even the wildest alien capabilities.

The Chinese use of Pascal's Triangle predates its discovery by Blaise Pascal.

"The Tees Valley has ageing diesel trains that predate any form of emission control.