datum

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

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

This month, as the movie neared completion, he caught a numerical error in one of its graphics, a missing handful of zeros in one particular datum.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2017

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

Gold buying by central banks has been elevated roughly since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, data from the World Gold Council shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

By the end of June, Yosemite had seen at least 183,000 more visitors than last year, according to preliminary park visitor data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

But Prof Beaumont said to supply data centres, the government needed to focus on delivering abundant and reliable energy for the grid immediately.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

And there was another sort of story about Alphonse Bertillon—a story that suggested that without good data, things would turn out far less happily.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day