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The year is a lexicographic first-use report.

1872 is the cited corpus-example year, not a claim that the word began then.

The year is a lexicographic first-use report, not an earliest surviving object inspected by SET-U.

The year is source-reported; no single geographic point is asserted.

The year is a lexicographic first-use report.

The year is source-reported; the underlying volume was not directly inspected.

The open interval begins at the source-reported French horizon.

Dates describe publication of the cited analyses, not survival of the Old English word into modern speech.

The computing-era stage begins at the twentieth-century boundary and remains open into current usage.

1920 is the cited date of the Czech R.U.R. coinage. The source supports Prague as the play’s named cultural origin, while the coordinate represents the city rather than every early occurrence.

The open interval begins with Merriam-Webster’s 1922 English first-known-use horizon. It does not date every later mechanical, figurative, software, or automation sense to that year.

The 1922–1923 interval joins two distinct cited claims: the lexicographic 1922 first-use horizon and the directly inspected 1923 title-page object. It is not a claim that the borrowing process lasted exactly two years.

Dictionary publication and current-use horizon, not a claim of dialectal uniformity.

The date is exact for the dictionary's reported quotation, while the underlying page remains uninspected in this tranche.

1931 marks the beginning of Dehkhoda dictionary publication, not the beginning of Persian čāy.

1953 marks the cited dictionary publication, not the word’s first Russian use.

The opening year follows the reviewed computing-sense horizon.

The global-English stage begins with the reviewed 1984 first-known-use year for culinary chai and remains open.