date back
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: to have come into being (a number of years ago)
a custom that dates back 400 years
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Trivia Civil forfeiture laws in the U.S. today date back to when the English used to seize what?
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
Trick-or-treating traditions likely date back to early All Souls' Day celebrations in the United States, according to History.com.
—Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
The alleged encounters date back from 1990 to as recently as this summer.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
Its earliest art exhibitions date back to the eighteen-forties, though the west wing, designed by McKim, Mead & White, wasn’t finished until 1897, less than a year before the formation of the modern City of New York.
—The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
Trick-or-treating traditions likely date back to early All Souls' Day celebrations in the United States, according to History.com.
—Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
The alleged encounters date back from 1990 to as recently as this summer.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
Its earliest art exhibitions date back to the eighteen-forties, though the west wing, designed by McKim, Mead & White, wasn’t finished until 1897, less than a year before the formation of the modern City of New York.
—The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Date back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/date%20back. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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