datum
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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
Her death made no sense to me, other than as a brute datum.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2021
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
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
They’re also implanting devices known as biologgers into deer and mountain lions to monitor physiological data including body temperature, heart rate and fat reserves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Tesla operates a supercomputing cluster in Texas, though SpaceX’s data centers are based in Mississippi and Tennessee.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
“Many in the market looked beyond national headlines and said ‘a lot of municipalities went and voted against the ability for data centers to be built in their backyard.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
According to data from UK jobs website Adzuna, external, 51% of the adverts on its site in September had salary information, but the proportion has been falling in recent years.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
It will be my job to see if I can bring them back online and salvage whatever data they have collected.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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