data bank

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In March 2009, homicide detectives reopened the case and submitted evidence gathered in 1987 to the CAL-DNA data bank in the hopes a lead would emerge.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2023

Contemporary art, dating roughly from 1945 onwards, made up 23% of the art market in 2020-2021, compared with 3% in 2000-2001, according to the Artprice data bank.

From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2022

Much of Midnight Protocol’s story plays out over simulated emails, chat sessions, and a small searchable data bank.

From The Verge • Nov. 15, 2021

"I think things like a national data bank to take a look, to make sure that police officers who have a bad record one place can't go to another, makes a difference," he pointed out.

From Fox News • Jun. 9, 2020

Among the billions of notes on file in the Lancet's data bank, there were only two scraps of data available on the 31 Brucker system.

From Star Surgeon by Nourse, Alan Edward