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database

[dey-tuh-beys] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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We also created a database mandate where landlords had to tell the city when they were evicting someone.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

Police say its database, searchable with a few keystrokes, has sped up arrests.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Since it began for the 2002-03 season, Fantasy Premier League has evolved into a huge database boasting millions of players across the globe, with substitutions and wildcards and the maths done for you.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

The breakthrough came while paleontologists Oscar Castillo and Jesús Serrano were building a database of fossils from the lithographic limestones of Montsec held in Catalan and European museums.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

I couldn’t spend the rest of the week exploring the Sixer database, like I’d planned.

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

Sutherland said they also considered using genetic genealogy, databases of people who had voluntarily given DNA to trace relatives and family histories, but that was not usually allowed in the UK.

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

Miyashita asked Weber, who was then at Carleton University, along with two undergraduate students at the University of Ottawa, to search published research and museum databases for photographs of developing snakes.

From Science Daily Sep. 1, 2026

The numbers can be found in federal databases and are tracked, for example, by the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

As a scythe’s apprentice, Citra had access to databases and information that most people didn’t.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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