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[ verb ] belong to an earlier time
Examples "This story dates back 200 years" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)The statutes , similar in both the Bay_State and Rhode_Island and dating_back in some instances to colonial times , severely limit the types of merchandise that may be sold on the Sabbath . (The Dallas Morning News,...)The present company is a combination of several smaller ones that date_back to 1834 . Latter-day interest in Elizabethan singing dates well back into the nineteenth century in England , much ahead of similar revivals in other countries . (The Providence Journal...)He dates_back to the days before the first sailing_ship pulled into New_Orleans . (Rhode Island Legislative Council. Research Report...)The practice of state-owned vehicles for use of employees on business dates_back over forty years . |
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