date back
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Prosecutors previously told the court they could be ready for trial by October 2027 but were willing to move that date back to January 2028 to avoid the holiday period.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Reports of unidentified Prionus larvae damaging blueberry roots date back to 2010, but researchers had struggled to determine which species was responsible.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
The groups date back half a century, to the days of the Little Devils, whose mostly white members had matching tattoos and engaged in aggressive policing of mostly Latino communities in East Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
The roots of the crisis at Weil date back more than a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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
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