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
The FT’s article reports that the Chinese government discussed restricting the transfer of important data abroad and limiting the downloads of models by foreign users.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
“The data affords patience for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Just over 2 million people visited the park by the end of June, a 10% increase compared with last year’s visitation data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
"We're a small island but the internet is borderless, we need more compute within our shores," he said - suggesting the UK needed to build more data centres.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
“It would help us learn a lot more about the climate and atmosphere of Mars if we could get that data from Courage.”
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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