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
The Assembly Rooms date back to 1735 and were used for social functions and dances in the Georgian era.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
The findings, published in Biology Letters, challenge ideas that date back to Charles Darwin.
From Science Daily • May 13, 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
The first traces of the people who would become the Olmec date back to about 1800 b.c.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
