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[deyt] / deɪt /








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Audit the profile for red flags: a recent creation date, post frequency and blatant engagement bait.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

The Nazca Lines are a group of geoglyphs etched into the desert sands that date back to between 500 BC and 500 AD.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

Recipe development has trained me to distrust a dish that works on the first try; it is like meeting someone wonderful on a first date and spending the evening scanning for red flags.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

It added that "to date" nearly 2,000 Ethiopians had "benefited from royal amnesties" - without mentioning the crimes or sentences.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

“You’ve already been on a date to Sandy June’s? Mia, this is our place. It’s been our place since . . . since forever.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

James have two other tour dates this month - next week in Portugal and in Norwich on 20 August.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

The concept dates back to 1984, when French researcher Marie Françoise Rolland-Cachera and her colleagues described "adiposity rebound" in a paper published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

The five-year licenses run separately for each show, with start dates that vary based on territory and the expiration of existing streaming deals.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Federal judges have found that the government filed statements generated by artificial intelligence that referenced nonexistent case law, wrote briefs that ignored facts and filed declarations with inaccurate dates, the ProPublica review shows.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

On one side of the wall are huge portraits of other Queen Mothers, labeled with the names, villages, and dates from all throughout history.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

According to Trujillo, Quintero said he’d once dated Franco’s daughter.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

With their dated decor, hotel-like hallways, overhead ceiling tiles and abandoned office spaces, the Backrooms resemble the overlooked non-places of modern life – spaces many people recognize but rarely notice.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

The Wall Street Journal and its reporters received grand jury subpoenas dated March 4 that sought information related to a February article about Pentagon concerns regarding an extended military campaign against Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

In my brother’s case, when you look inside the box, everything was dated prior to COVID.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

“You would be perfectly queer even if you never dated anyone ever.”

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

As Marisa Kabas reported this week in her newsletter the Handbasket, in the winter of 2019, Moraff was dating a woman in Pittsburgh he’d met through an app.

From Slate Aug. 1, 2026

I tried to use the same dating recipe to find my forever.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Anthropic said Thursday that software it was testing got onto the internet and hacked unsuspecting companies without the AI-maker’s knowledge in three separate incidents dating back to April.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Once the charcoal had been confirmed, researchers received exceptional authorization to remove extremely small samples for carbon-14 dating.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

Gossip columns had not found their way to the Internet, so we relied solely on monthly magazines for the latest on whom our favorite celebrities were dating.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi




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