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| I/you/we/they | date back to |
| he/she/it | dates back to |
| present participle | dating back to |
| past tense | dated back to |
| past participle | dated back to |
a large collection of records dating back to the 1950s
This is the American English definition of date back to. View British English definition of date back to.
gaslight
to manipulate someone psychologically so that they begin to question their own perceptions and memories
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Dunning-Kruger effect
the phenomenon by which an incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence
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