Thesaurus results for DATES

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noun

plural of date

as in rendezvous

an agreement to be present at a specified time and place I have a date to meet my financial consultant at seven o'clock

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Relevance

as in durations

the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress the embarrassingly short date of most of his romances

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dates

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verb

present tense third-person singular of date

as in accompanies

to go on a social engagement with I don't want to date him—I'd rather just be friends

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as in attends

to go on dates that may eventually lead to marriage we dated for two years before we got engaged

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Recent Examples of dates

Noun

Those fishing in other regions will be given different dates. —

Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026 The run — first set around 2024’s Short n’ Sweet then expanded to include 2025’s Man’s Best Friend — stretched across 72 dates. —

Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2026 Summer tends to be a peak time for travel, and prices can surge for these dates. —

Liz Knueven,ryley Amond, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2026 The food tour company also offers small group culinary tours that include cooking courses taking place on select dates or that can be scheduled at any time. —

Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026 No further court dates are set for the case. —

Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2026 Historically, the dates of first saltie arrival range from March 28 (2023) to May 7 (2014). —

Jay Gabler, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026 The 44-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum revealed on her podcast, Two Ts in a Pod, that she's been on 10 dates with an older man. —

Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026 Charlotte has rattled off wins in 14 of its past 16 road dates, and its 22 road victories are the franchise’s most since 2001-02. —

Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 6 Apr. 2026

Verb

Asylum seekers were largely allowed to await their court dates outside detention, and many, like Amalia’s family, were granted humanitarian parole. —

Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 About 10 miles south of Dwight, in Odell, a Standard Oil Gas Station—also on the National Register of Historic Places—dates to 1932. —

Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 12 Apr. 2026 The building, directly across from Central Park, dates to the early 1930s and operates as a full-service condominium with doorman and concierge service. —

Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2026 Noguchi’s first public works proposal, Play Mountain, dates to 1933 and was submitted to a New Deal–era program. —

Terry Nguyen, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026 Hitschler said that type of blue-collar mentality from Chesney dates to their days at the Division III level when both coaches worked at Salve Regina in 2011. —

Gabriel Duarte, Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026 The two-time major champion pulled out of the Valero Texas Open before the tournament started last week, citing a back injury that dates to the Players Championship in March. —

Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 8 Apr. 2026 The guilty plea represents the end of a case that dates as far back as 1993 and took decades for investigators to solve – frustrating victims’ families, who felt the investigation was not taken seriously. —

Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026 Some have attended nearly six years of court dates in his case and 17 agreed to cosign his bond. —

ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026

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Noun

As Tuesday dawned, Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman continued to beam back pictures of the previous day’s lunar rendezvous, which set a distance record for humanity.

— Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
By late Tuesday afternoon, the Artemis II astronauts had beamed back more than 50 gigabytes’ worth of pictures and other data from the previous day’s lunar rendezvous, which set a new distance record for humanity.

— Marcia Dunn, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026