datum

So went the prohibition on artificial intelligence in Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel “Dune,” and what was then a datum of fictional world-building is now a real and pressing concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Moving in tandem through a sequence of points, the team builds up a series of height marks relative to a known baseline, or datum.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2019

Researchers rate each datum for accuracy, using a system developed by SFEI.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2019

The street level along West 26th Street is more than three feet above that datum.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2017

No plural form is necessary, and the old singular, datum, can be left to the Romans.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Absolute comparisons are not possible because data gathered in the first few days of the invasion was sometimes incomplete.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

In the United States, that hidden water use can be twice the amount a data center consumes on its own.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Stronger-than-expected economic data, such as last Friday’s robust U.S. jobs report, also uphold risk-on sentiment and lower immediate safe-haven demand for gold, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

While it looks like players and coaches will get to see the data in early 2027, any wider outcomes or decisions might take longer.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

And there was another sort of story about Alphonse Bertillon—a story that suggested that without good data, things would turn out far less happily.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day