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

These remains date back to the Middle Eocene period, roughly 47 million years ago.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

A couple, out for a stroll, asked an AFP journalist to take a photo of them, a memento of a nice date back on their island home.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Matthew Richardson from Manx National Heritage explained that the "lovely natural Manx glen" appears to date back to the 1820s, but all is not as it seems.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Modern drug forfeiture laws date back to 1970, when Congress passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander