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to have existed since a particular time in the past in English:

1. date back to date back to


So what this figure shows is that spiders date back to almost 380 million years.
Archaeologists believe the coins found in the field date back to the medieval period.

English word "to have existed since a particular time in the past"(date back to) occurs in sets:

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