date back
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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
Some of the videos date back to 2023.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
These remains date back to the Middle Eocene period, roughly 47 million years ago.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
I have nothing against “prequels” in themselves—they date back to Virgil’s “Aeneid”—but they are no substitute for the original books.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The first traces of the people who would become the Olmec date back to about 1800 b.c.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
