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database

[dey-tuh-beys] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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The possibility eventually drew the attention of Gordon Osinski, a planetary geologist at Western University who also directs the Impact Earth database.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

We also created a database mandate where landlords had to tell the city when they were evicting someone.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

Yet that same database warns against exactly this kind of comparison, because disasters have been far better recorded since 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

"What we also have is the ability to put those images through facial recognition, if the suspect is on a database, we're able to identify them."

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

He pulled out a chair for Coal and clicked through to the public library’s database.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Investigators also looked to see if they could find living or deceased relatives through official DNA databases but none came up, the inquest heard.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

For the analysis, the researchers drew on large publicly available genetic databases.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 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

The numbers can be found in federal databases and are tracked, for example, by the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

Of these, nine had distinct patterns of small mutations that the researchers could 'not find in any databases or in the literature.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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