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

Some have attended nearly six years of court dates in his case and 17 agreed to cosign his bond. —

ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026 The cast-iron cannon likely dates to the late 17th century or early 18th century. —

Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2026 Not mentioned was having to slot the concert dates into the school’s spring break, the only time something this elaborate could have been staged in a public school. —

Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Apr. 2026 According to the city, the tradition dates all the way back to the 1870s. —

Katie Houlis, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026 That placed statewide optimism 6% above the average score for a benchmark that dates to 2007. —

Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 3 Apr. 2026 The title refers to the Quechua language that dates to the ancient Inca empire and is still spoken by millions of people in the Andes region of Peru. —

Adam Bell april 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 Apr. 2026 Times staff writer Christopher Reynolds wrote that city officials aim to give the facility at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard, which dates to 1927, a three-year, $40-million facelift. —

Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026 The original home, a classic brick-and-clapboard New England Colonial in Edgartown’s historic downtown district, dates to 1835, when the tiny village was a major whaling port. —

Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dates

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