date back
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The first signs of a spending surge date back to late 2025.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
The “long-standing agreements and planning assumptions ... date back more than a decade,” NV Energy said in a May 14 statement.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Cheshire Police said it was made aware last month of allegations that reportedly date back to 2023.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
These remains date back to the Middle Eocene period, roughly 47 million years ago.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
Our present ideas about the motion of bodies date back to Galileo and Newton.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
