date back

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Some date back as far as the 1970s, though many have sprung up over the past two decades.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Video game adaptations of films date back as far as the late 1970s.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Fossils of stromatolites date back at least 3.5 billion years.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

The recent charges against Castro date back to an incident 30 years ago.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

However tentatively, the results indicated that the various Algonkian languages in New England all date back to a common ancestor that appeared in the Northeast a few centuries before Christ.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann