How to Use data bank in a Sentence

data bank

noun
  • The public can search the data bank for state or national numbers, but not the names of doctors disciplined.
    Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Those issues would have appeared in the national data bank, but not the federation’s list.
    Matt Wynn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Saturday’s goal was to add at least 160 more observations to the data bank.
    Sara Cardine, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
  • Complaints that do not result in board action are not reported to the data bank and remain confidential.
    Staff, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • When potential clients contact the center, they are screened and their information is entered into the hunger center’s data bank.
    cleveland, 1 June 2020
  • Kaper knew that the odds were low that a man born in India and raised in the Netherlands could find his genetic relatives in an American data bank.
    Bhavya Dore, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Hospitals are required by federal law to check the data bank when their medical staffs are considering granting privileges to a new doctor.
    Ginger Christ and Brie Zeltner, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Science magazine drew a very pointed analogy between genetic data banks and money banks in an article published earlier this year.
    Susan Scutti, Newsweek, 24 July 2014
  • The responses flowed into the data bank of Billy Chat, a robot that uses artificial intelligence to text.
    Nina Agrawal, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Owner-chairman Tony Bloom’s worldwide data bank has helped Brighton make some shrewd deals, but has their strong trading reputation been tarnished during the first two years of Hurzeler’s reign?
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 15 June 2026
  • The Federation of State Medical Boards has its own system for tracking state actions and credentials, but doesn’t have all the same information as the data bank.
    John Fauber, jsonline.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The kind of writing professionals practice draws on an extensive data bank in the author’s head, one filled with literary illusions, ancient and new, historical reference points, buried memories and Google.
    Mike Oliver | [email protected], al, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Despite being known in Texas as a doctor to avoid (at least among professional peers), and despite a report to the data bank and an investigation into his cases by the state medical board, Duntsch continued to be hired.
    Mahita Gajanan, Time, 16 July 2021
  • Brighton’s data bank, based on the secret algorithm of their owner-chairman Tony Bloom, shows that current league leaders Arsenal now have the strongest second XI of any club in world football.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Hallucinations can happen at each step throughout an AI model’s thinking process, particularly when prompts require information outside of a model’s data bank.
    Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • By the 1970s, the number indexed a wealth of sensitive information in computer data banks, prompting major privacy legislation.
    Time Staff, Time, 28 June 2019
  • National data bank for background checks The patients at Hacienda and other intermediate-care facilities need highly specialized care because of severe and complex medical needs.
    Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 13 Feb. 2020

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