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database

[day-tuh-bays] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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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

A spokesman for the company told the Daily Telegraph, external it no longer had any involvement in Israeli settlements and was wrongly included in the database.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The 56-year-old is scheduled to be released on Jan. 21, 2028, from FCI Fort Dix, a low-security federal prison in New Jersey, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate database.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 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

While the data and video on the Third Gate was copying over to my flash drive, I continued to delve deeper into the Sixer database.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

All the more reason to pour cold water on outrageous claims about flagging little enzymes in huge databases.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

Investigators also looked to see if they could find living or deceased relatives through official DNA databases but none came up, the inquest heard.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

Of these, nine had distinct patterns of small mutations that the researchers could 'not find in any databases or in the literature.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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