How to Use database in a Sentence

database

noun
Definition of databasenext
Synonyms for databasenext
  • All of our customers' information was kept in a database.
  • The photos are in the process of being removed from the training database, Thiel said.
    — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Hellman says the ink may now be in the database, which could help accurately date the diary.
    — Jacque Smith, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
  • In two of the past seven polls in the R.C.P. database, Biden’s economic approval has edged up into the forties.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 June 2023
  • The paper was uploaded to the preprint database arXiv, and has yet to be peer-reviewed.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
  • But so far, the state’s database includes only the number of acres needing restoration.
    — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
  • One post said the person had uploaded a large database of Ashkenazi Jews.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Police killed the highest number of people on record last year, according to the database.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
  • The owner is responsible for the integrity of the data in that database.
    — Gene Marks, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Reform activists cheered the creation of the database, which is the first central statewide list of police discipline.
    — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • His bond was set at $2 million on Friday, according to a court database.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • This time the researchers set up a separate database for each file, rather than one database with many files, as is the case in most data storage.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • And many point to Polt and a few other diehards, like Ted Munk and his enormous database of machines, for inspiration.
    — cincinnati.com, 10 May 2023
  • In the meantime, a search of the nursing board’s online database shows Rupp-Jones’ license is active but includes a note that formal charges have been filed against her.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Trump was expected to be swabbed for DNA, which goes into a database and is required in the federal court system.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 13 June 2023
  • Poshmark has added about 100 million listings to the database and continues to add more to fine tune the technology.
    — Byjohn Kell, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The phone number wasn’t known to the student or law enforcement running it through various databases, deputies said.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Parsons and his colleagues mapped the city on a grid and then consulted a database that included the footprint and total height of every building in the city.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 26 May 2023
  • Fugitives on assault or murder charges are exactly the kind of people its databases should flag.
    — Jane Bradley, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The site will now be listed in the country’s national monuments database.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The company ultimately decided not to pursue this project and let Kinard buy the rights to the database.
    — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Next, the research team hopes to study other genetic databases to see if the same link holds true for people of other ancestries.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The team doesn’t have the resources to track people down in government databases or on the streets, the way that public health departments do for some other illnesses.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • In Arizona alone, the database recorded 4,177 deaths last year, including men, women and children.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Some doses of semaglutide are still listed as in shortage on the agency’s drug shortage database website.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The database is updated regularly and is current as of March 19.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The computer vision software is trained through a database of about 7 million images.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
  • This consensus model is then sent back to each hospital’s local database to be trained once again.
    — Fintan Burke, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Mass shootings have happened in nearly every state, according to the database.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
  • During our demo, Zhao pulls up a database someone had made of recent tech articles.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023

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