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database

[dey-tuh-beys] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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Forty-eight-year-old retailer Eszter Somfai had her home address shared online, after an internal party database with some 200,000 supporters' personal details was leaked last November.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The cloud-computing and database company is cutting jobs across its business lines, according to employees and several posts on LinkedIn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Investors are concerned that Oracle’s legacy database business will be disrupted by AI-native competitors.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

But the wave keeps building: A database of AI hallucinations maintained by the French researcher Damien Charlotin now numbers 1,174 cases, of which some 750 are from U.S. courts.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Here, ranked by frequency of mention, are the crime-drop explanations cited in articles published from 1991 to 2001 in the ten largest-circulation papers in the LexisNexis database.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt