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database

[day-tuh-bays] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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Often, it’s the ability to tap knowledge that never makes it into a database, according to a recent report by Amazon Web Services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

In the historical Atlantic hurricane database, there has not been a year without a hurricane recorded since 1914.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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

Ross is jailed at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and his bond is set for $5,000, according to the Miami-Dade County inmate database.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Then, last night, just before I’d succumbed to exhaustion, I’d finally managed to navigate my way through the intranet’s labyrinth of firewalls and into the main Oology Division database.

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

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

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 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

Contact details, vehicle registrations and postcodes were stolen in the breach that appears to have accessed databases containing wi-fi log in and car parking details.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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

Just as Bod’s name was not to be found on the school databases.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman




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