datum
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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
Her death made no sense to me, other than as a brute datum.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2021
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
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
In seven of the last 11 quarters, including estimates for the second quarter, Nvidia has been the biggest contributor to S&P 500 earnings growth, according to data from Seaport Research.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
“There is a good chance that the device has non-genuine parts, which raises a safety question as much as a security one,” says Tzvika Shahaf, chief product officer at Blancco, which specializes in data erasure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The council moved that bureau forward last year, and a spokesperson for the Housing Department said that seven positions have been hired within the bureau handling contracts and data oversight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, for example, who once embraced AI, on Tuesday signed an executive order placing strict guardrails on new data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Every ten years the United States government collects data to find out who is living in the US. The census takers ask questions about age, sex, and race, to see how the country is changing.”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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