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database

[day-tuh-bays] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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Gross trained Idealab.ai on a huge database of journalistic and professional articles, with an eye toward finding problem statements and then proposing business ideas to solve them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

It is, admittedly, easier to stage a photo opportunity around a basket of fries than a database of food-traceability records.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

But you’ve already answered, so they will make a note in the database that yours is an active number.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Those images and the clothing he was wearing at the time of his death were uploaded to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons database.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Typing my social security number and not finding my name in the database that evening was a weird sort of relief.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

Researchers hope the databases created using the digitised text -- which he likens to a kind of "huge Facebook of the past" -- could help bring to light links between people, places and ideas.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Echoing the findings of an earlier evaluation also ordered by Carter, Nardello & Co. found “a reporting environment that relies on numerous databases, self-reported information, manual data transfers, and decentralized reporting practices.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

All the more reason to pour cold water on outrageous claims about flagging little enzymes in huge databases.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

Through leaked Russian databases, Grozev found that Piunov was working for the FSB and determined that he was involved in the work of recruiting prisoners for the Wagner paramilitary group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

As a scythe’s apprentice, Citra had access to databases and information that most people didn’t.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman


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