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database

[dey-tuh-beys] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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The Miami-Dade County court case database confirmed that Lavandeira filed a petition for temporary custody on Aug. 7.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

People aged six and above would have their biometric data collected, with information - such as fingerprints - stored on the Eurodac database.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

To find out, I analyzed my auditing firm’s database of stock market timers back to 1980.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

As The Guardian put it, “people failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.”

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

As we talked, in fact, there were several key moments when he seemed to probe me for information, to find out what I knew, so he could add it to his own formidable database.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

For proof of concept, Quiñones proposed using a February 2021 public voter list he’d obtained for New Jersey and running it through HSI’s databases.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

They use mashed-together databases to sense patterns and retrieve verbiage.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

“These databases and tracking devices are important tools for law enforcement to conduct lawful investigations,” Los Angeles County Dist.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Despite a total population of just over six million people, the Baltic states possessed around 33,000 startups last year, according to data from Lursoft IT, a Latvian company specialising in business and financial databases.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

These databases are then used by police and prosecutors, as well as by employers and housing officials—an electronic record that will haunt many for life.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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