date back
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"These early quasars date back to the Universe's infancy," says Daming Yang of Leiden University in the Netherlands, lead author of the Euclid discovery paper.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
The last substantial changes to the plan date back to 1995 for much of the watershed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Some of the incidents without public outcomes date back to late 2023.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
The oldest of these supposedly date back to 500 B.C. and feature plazas, artificial ponds and miles of roads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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
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