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

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

In 2026, record-breaking temperatures were recorded at Los Angeles International Airport, with the highest average monthly temperature in August 82.5 degrees and, in October, 89 degrees, according to data from the National Weather Service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Anthropic software could never have created songs that sound so similar to Presley’s out of whole cloth, the lawsuit claims, and must have relied instead on ill-gotten data.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Megaspeed and companies like it buy Nvidia chips with the goal of installing them in data centers in countries such as Malaysia, then selling that computing capacity to tech giants and other customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

At least 26,164 tool thefts were recorded in 2025, based on responses from 30 police forces who shared data.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Inaccurate data from countries with high incidences of MDR have made it difficult for pharmaceutical companies to meet demand for these drugs consistently, and therefore market prices have fluctuated.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French