database
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There have been nearly 1,300 shark incidents around Australia since 1791, of which more than 260 resulted in death, according to a database of shark encounters with humans.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
The IRS could also maintain a database of individuals convicted or subjected to sanctions for their activity in the nonprofit sector and have nonprofits affirm that they don’t employ anyone on the list.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
People carrying out home renovations will gain greater protections against "cowboy builders" through a new database of trusted traders and a payment system offering more safeguards, the government has said.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
To track cancer cases, we used the UK Biobank – a huge health database that follows participants for decades and records, among other things, who develops cancer and when.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
He played with the numbers some more, looked at the order of events, texts, and calls, which he’d finally gotten straight in the database.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
The numbers can be found in federal databases and are tracked, for example, by the Rockefeller Institute of Government.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
District Attorney Nathan Hochman launched an investigation using law-enforcement databases with records of virtually everyone the county had prosecuted since the 1960s, including juveniles whose files had been scrubbed from the probation department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Tom Hodge, an HSI data analyst at the meeting, proposed running the voter information through the Athena Toolbox, an analytical platform developed by the Sandia National Laboratories that had access to all of HSI’s databases.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
They then compared those samples with genomic databases containing thousands of DNA samples from dozens of present-day human populations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 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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