date from

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: to have been made in or to have come into being in (a certain time in the past)

This bowl dates from the sixth century.

Examples of date from in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Most of the ranch’s other buildings also date from the ’20s, when yet another owner—oil magnate H.G. Wylie, who had a hand in reassembling the ranch’s many parcels—built hay barns, dairy barns, garages, stables, a machine shop and a street of houses for the ranch’s workers. —Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025

The bulk of Syria’s bulldozers and cranes date from the 1970s. —Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2025

The company announced last year that its scientists had assembled the most complete Tasmanian tiger genome to date from a century-old pickled head. —Bruce Gil, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2025

Congress, in the 1968 Uniform Monday Holiday Act, moved the date from Washington’s actual birthday (February 22) to the third Monday in February as a giveaway to federal employee unions and the travel industry, both of whom value three-day weekends more highly than our historical patrimony. —The Editors, National Review, 17 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for date from

• nodosum
• overcome
• pyrethrum
• saccharum
• abomasum
• become
• checksum
• humdrum
• income
• outcome
• succumb
• therefrom