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[ verb ] belong to an earlier time

Synonyms

go_back date_from

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 .

Related terms

originate ascend

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