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database

[dey-tuh-beys] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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The Global Burden of Disease, the world’s leading mortality database, finds that Europe’s standardized heat-death risk has changed only marginally since 1990.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The analysis is based on the OECD’s Manufacturing Groups and Industrial Corporations database, which includes subsidy estimates and financial information for 525 of the world’s largest manufacturing groups spread across 15 key industrial sectors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

The researchers also searched a database of drug compounds to identify medicines that affect this newly identified gene network.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

A database of compromised accounts -- created by an internet monitor tracking Russian influence operations and shared with AFP by a Clemson University researcher -- included at least one other Wall Street Journal reporter.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

It was the only area of the database I couldn’t seem to access.

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




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