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database

[day-tuh-bays] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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Dan Bird, from cyber security firm Horizon3 says the pop up message the criminals sent implies that their access has gone beyond the Snowflake database.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The ministry said it was never told the database was operational or could be accessed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

At Nepal's two forensic laboratories, both in Kathmandu, experts are working to profile samples and build a database on a scale they have never handled before.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The company’s press release goes into more detail, but basically says that Claude was prompted to search through a massive database of DNA sequences for reverse transcriptases, enzymes that copy RNA into DNA.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

And that's because of this relational database thing.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

Together, these measurements created one of the most extensive databases on atherosclerosis assembled to date.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

So her personal information, spread over multiple government databases, is messy, incomplete, often contradictory and may even have been inadvertently combined with others who share her name.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

District Attorney Nathan Hochman launched an investigation using law-enforcement databases with records of virtually everyone the county had prosecuted since the 1960s, including juveniles whose files had been scrubbed from the probation department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

"It would be a mistake for anybody to try to draw definite conclusions just based on the fact that two databases happen to match," Morley told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Tucker and I had exhausted the library’s databases on Scarlet and McCoy, with no further clues about McCoy’s particular brand of psychosis.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia




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