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"is thought to date" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
This phrase is typically used when discussing the estimated or assumed time period in which something took place or was created. It is often used when there is uncertainty about the exact date. Example: The pottery found in the excavation site is thought to date back to the Bronze Age, but further analysis is needed to confirm this.
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The intergenerational abuse is thought to date back 40 years.
It is thought to date from about 1602-4.
The picture is thought to date from the mid-1550s.
It is thought to date from 1942 when Turing was working at Bletchley Park.
This one is thought to date from the early 1760's, Stubbs's most prolific and successful decade.
It is thought to date from the 17th or early 18th century, and it might have been made for children of the royal family at Versailles.
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They are thought to date from the year 50BC (Late Iron Age).
References to hackers and hacking in the computer culture are thought to date from the 1960's.
These are thought to date back to as early as 8000 bce, about the time that hunter-gatherer societies were giving way to an agricultural way of life.
Solo man has been thought to date to the Late Pleistocene possibly during the last glaciation (about 15,000 to 20,000 years ago)—but his age remains uncertain.
Nearby are the ruins of prehistoric settlements, and the greater surrounding region is home to many rock-hewn churches that are thought to date back several centuries.
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