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# How to pronounce "dates back" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/dætɛsbæk/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **da·tes·back**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "dates back" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "Make something more beautiful. dates back to St. Thomas was martyred in Kerala apparently."
- **Watch at 26:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0joNyRo0ZI&t=1565s)

### Example 2
> "a few uh misconceptions about about feeding babies first. Um and and this dates back to some industrial food um uh uh marketing in our country. So the the baby food um niche has been largely filled by cereals. Um but it turns out that cereals are not the ideal first food for babies. They lack um uh"
- **Watch at 32:33**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGOV4G3MrQ4&t=1953s)

### Example 3
> "its criticism it highlights how three separate forces could have and should have stopped Wayne cousins from being a police officer in the first place this dates back to 2004 when Wayne cousins first tried to join Kent Police back then he failed his application but despite that failure he was still able to become a volunteer Constable then again in 2006 he failed to gain further vetting clearance was still retained as an"
- **Watch at 2:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syXDhc3XI9w&t=128s)

### Example 4
> "our north america editor john sopple is at the white house john sophie the obsession with the first 100 days in office is peculiarly american it dates back to 1933 and franklin delano roosevelt he was the president after the great depression and introduced the new deal a raft of welfare measures that saw government grow 90 years on joe biden won't mind too much if people start comparing him to fdr"
- **Watch at 0:55**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsQqxVLEKUE&t=55s)

### Example 5
> "IR to be Member of a terrorist organ This is a Part of policy that I think Dates Back to the Age of the anc and should not be p43 webs to organ have"
- **Watch at 0:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FncO01tjH0&t=9s)

### Example 6
> "to insulate their economy. Now, whether that is only because of a potential conflict over Taiwan, I don't think so. I think this is a long-term plan which dates back at least 10 years since the first Trump administration, when China started to see, of course, that, you know, initially there was a trade war, then it started to be all-encompassing sort of like tech and military"
- **Watch at 21:17**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU1B-czwFDw&t=1277s)

### Example 7
> "saying that Russia is showing an increased appetite for taking such risks the alliance has a strategy in place for how to deal with hybrid Warfare but it dates back to 2015 during their meeting in Brussels ministers are expected to call for an update NATO allies will continue to stand together to f face these threats through a range of measures including greater intelligence"
- **Watch at 1:17**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaE2ER-PSbo&t=77s)

### Example 8
> "but it's 120 000 inhabitants are mostly ethnic Armenians conflict between both sides over nagorno karapak is nothing new dates back over a century within the last 30 years Armenian Azerbaijan have fought two Wars over it in the first war which ended in 1994 The"
- **Watch at 2:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEoyLfDPdiQ&t=179s)

### Example 9
> "agreements at the moment um that both parties are pretty much settled on a policy that's very antagonistic towards China this partly dates back to to Donald Trump who of course have opened this trade war against China he really kind of like took on the Chinese very aggressively after initially trying to reach out to Xi Jinping the Chinese president um but Biden has really picked that up"
- **Watch at 4:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyQ83TsJMeQ&t=283s)

### Example 10
> "April and May are the hottest months of the year in bise it's a time when many farmers set fire to their land a tradition that dates back to ancient times it destroys biodiversity it destroys the soil it can destroy crops"
- **Watch at 0:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKj6VSZLJy8&t=10s)


## How to Pronounce "dates back"

- **Syllables**: da · tes · back
- **IPA**: `/dætɛsbæk/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Pronunciations

[dates](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/dates), [back](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/back)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “dates back”?
“dates back” is pronounced /dætɛsbæk/ (da · tes · back). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “dates back”?
“dates back” has 3 syllables: da · tes · back.

### How can I hear “dates back” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “dates back” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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