date back
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Two separate press-shy families have controlled the domaine through a partnership since 1942, although some of its vineyards date back to the 1200s, or even earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Fossils of stromatolites date back at least 3.5 billion years.
From Science Daily • May 22, 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
The first signs of a spending surge date back to late 2025.
From Barron's • May 19, 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
