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

Wheely is locked in a legal battle over whether it needs to provide the city with location data on its vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

The Associated Press reported in 2018 that China had required electric-vehicle makers operating in that country, including foreign-owned companies like Tesla, to transmit real-time data on drivers for government monitoring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

The film in its second weekend pulled in $87 million, acccording to Rentrak, a data analytics company that tracks box office sales.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

Now we’re told artificial intelligence will ravage humanity like a zombie apocalypse, so let’s ban data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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