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database

[dey-tuh-beys] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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Forty-eight-year-old retailer Eszter Somfai had her home address shared online, after an internal party database with some 200,000 supporters' personal details was leaked last November.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

“I’m sure in the database they have me at 5-11 and seven-eighths.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Investors are concerned that Oracle’s legacy database business will be disrupted by AI-native competitors.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

But the wave keeps building: A database of AI hallucinations maintained by the French researcher Damien Charlotin now numbers 1,174 cases, of which some 750 are from U.S. courts.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

These packets can then be sent around China or Japan for typing, depending on the specialty required, and then reassembled at the company’s database in its Tokyo headquarters.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman