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Examples of hard drive in a Sentence
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Cloud storage and external hard drives aren't mutually exclusive.
—New Atlas, 9 July 2024
Left at the scene was a handgun, two magazines, and numerous electronics, including a phone, laptop, tablet and hard drives.
—Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2024
The tipster was in possession of a small red hard drive containing thousands of documents that revealed widespread abuse by legislators of their parliamentary expense accounts.
—Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 4 June 2024
At the same time, the computing revolution that led to solid-state hard drives and smartphones in every pocket vastly increased the amount of data that each observatory in a network of radio telescopes could record and process.
—Seth Fletcher, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1982, in the meaning defined above
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“Hard drive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20drive. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
hard drive
noun
: a device for storing computer data that consists of one or more hard disks in a sealed case
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