Word Finder - date

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The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.

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We made a nice cake from dates.

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The date palm.

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There were a few dates planted around the house.

I have a date to get ready for.

The doctor set a due date of August 17th.

Yancey was an attentive date, always knowing exactly what to say and do.

You have a date in mind you'd like to share?

We need to make a date for shoe shopping soon.

If I do, I'll call you for that dinner date when I get back.

What could be more enticing than sharing several, delectable dishes with your date?

I didn't have an exact date.

The state's capital city is a great location for a date night or a romantic evening in town on the way to a camping destination.

She was too close to her due date to be running around in the hills.

Is that why you don't date?

How can we pinpoint a date?

Enjoy drinks from the full bar or a glass of wine from the large wine list while you cozy up to your date.

This is a great place to bring a date or to have a casual meal with friends.

He'd never gotten over her friend refusing to date him after she dumped him.

I can't wait to hear about his date.

I needed twenty minutes to bring the retired detective up to date.

Jennifer would remain in Ouray for at least another week, so she elicited a promise for a later dinner date.

She was in jeans and a man's dress shirt, her most unrevealing outfit to date.

She's probably coming here to meet a hot date and wants privacy.

Dean brought Fred up to date on not only the telephone call to his wife, but his meeting with Weller and his speculation that Cynthia might have seen Donnie Ryland near the accident scene.

She asked Elisabeth if she had a date and venue in mind yet.

Haven't you two set a date, yet?

These dates are valuable as enabling us to fix approximately the date of his birth, which must have occurred somewhere about 1370.

These northern "megara" are all of late date, none being prior to Minoan III.

To date the beginning of this earliest record of human production is impossible at present.

This killer of Miss Washington is your most dire threat to date.

Did Quinn think he could accomplish it; pin point the place and date?

The telephone lines between New Jersey and Colorado continued to burn about the confirmed August wedding date.

He brought her up to date.

He'd massacred every human she'd run across to date.

If I had a date when this Lola lady died, I might find something, but I'm not sure what good it would do us.

No, she still wasn't out of the woods, but everyone seemed pleased at her responses to date.

You came out smelling like a prom queen on her first date.

Most women on a first date would order a piece of fish or even a salad and end up pushing it around their plate.

She, in turn, brought him up to date.

If you don't draw the line at the wedding date, then when do you draw it?

You saved yourself for a man who would crawl into bed with a woman on the first date.

Princess is getting a little close to her due date.

Everybody gets a little nervous as the wedding date approaches.

Which reminds me - have you set a date yet?

Everyone assumed their wedding date would be announced any time now.

It's time we set a date.

There is evidence that about three centuries ago elephants wandered in the forests of Malwa and Nimar, while they survived to a later date in the Chanda district of the Central Provinces.

At an early date Hastings was placed in charge of an aurang or factory in the interior, where his duties would be to superintend the weaving of silk and cotton goods under a system of money advances.

He was probably dead and buried in his chapel at East Winch before November 27, 1308, the date of the patent by which Henry Scrope succeeded him as a commissioner of trailbaston.

In 1752 this was altered to the 1st of January, but the 25th of March remains one of the Quarter Days; though in some parts old Lady Day, on the 6th of April, is still the date for rent paying.

He was no doubt fully aware of having achieved no common feat, as he marked the work with his name and the date, and the years of his age.

Its date is now usually given as about Soo B.C. 1 In the next century the document E was composed, so called from its using 1 The dating of these documents is extremely difficult, since it is based entirely on internal evidence.

On the question of the date a comparison of genealogies of Maori chiefs shows that, up to the beginning of the 10th century, about eighteen generations or probably not much more than five centuries had passed since the first Maori arrivals.