database
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Shanahan was holding and using a cellphone at the time of the crash but was not at fault, according to the California Crash Reporting System, a statewide database of collisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Bonds in 2022 suffered their worst bear market since 1793, according to the database maintained by Edward McQuarrie, an emeritus professor at Santa Clara University.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Buckley said prosecutors had obtained the phone numbers from a law-enforcement database and hadn’t intended to seek records of family members.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In their new study, he and his colleagues used a global database of birdsong - recordings uploaded by thousands of volunteers.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Know thine enemy was Artemis’s motto, so he immersed himself in the lore of the People until he had compiled a huge database on their characteristics.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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“These databases will always lag behind innovation and can be easily circumvented and generate false positives that block legal designs and wrongly flag everyday makers,” she said at a Senate hearing this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Researchers have long attempted to organize common sense into databases.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Asylum seekers are fingerprinted on arrival in the UK and checked against UK police databases, but these would not necessarily show a conviction from another country.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
To investigate whether these amino acids affect longevity, the researchers analyzed health and genetic information from more than 270,000 participants enrolled in the UK Biobank, one of the world's largest long term health databases.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
These databases are then used by police and prosecutors, as well as by employers and housing officials—an electronic record that will haunt many for life.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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