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database

[dey-tuh-beys] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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Memorial's first chairman was the Nobel Prize-winning Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and the group established the largest publicly available database on Gulag victims.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

The I-AM Cable, for example, will avoid the center of the disputed South China Sea, tracking near the coast of the Philippines, according to a TeleGeography database.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Bento is a co-author of a pre-print paper analyzing the recent drive in cases across the country, analyzing a database of 45 states encompassing over 50,000 schools in 3,000 counties.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Soleimani Afshar and Hosseiny are being held in an ICE facility in Pearsall, Texas, according to a searchable database of detainees.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

By now, Sorrento would know I’d somehow gained access to the Sixers’ private database.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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