How to Use database in a Sentence
database
noun- All of our customers' information was kept in a database.
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And finally, through the FBIs database, there was a match.
—Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
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Now, the lub-dub is drawn from a database of real human hearts.
—Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
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The photos are in the process of being removed from the training database, Thiel said.
—Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
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There is also an option to watch films for free via the database.
—Abigail Lee, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
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In each case, the database says that advanced driver assist systems were in use at the time of the crash.
—CBS News, 19 Oct. 2022
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In each case, the database says that advanced driver assist systems were in use at the time of the crash.
—Tom Krisher, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2022
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The sister has 1,527 recipes in our New York Times Cooking database.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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That is, if the suspect's DNA is in a law enforcement database.
—Fox News, 24 Nov. 2022
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Then you’re tasked with searching a database for a perfect match (or a few!) and planning a fun first date.
—Nicol Natale, Woman's Day, 13 June 2022
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The state wage-theft database only indicated the date when the case was first opened.
—Joel Jacobs, ProPublica, 15 July 2024
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Yahsir's name did not show up in an online database of court records.
—Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2023
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After all, Lauren added her DNA to the database to help find her bio parents.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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Search the database below to view the salaries of all Union County employees.
—Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2025
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The result is known as the Carbon Majors: a database of the world’s biggest polluters up to the present moment.
—WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
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To produce these designs, the couple start with a database of thousands of plant species.
—Time, 3 Jan. 2023
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One flashpoint over the access rule is the steps that banks would have to take to consult the ownership database.
—Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
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Your complete database on all recalls, from food to cars.
—Dian Zhang, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
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Hellman says the ink may now be in the database, which could help accurately date the diary.
—Jacque Smith, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
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Fluker took a picture of the woman’s car tag and ran that through the law enforcement database.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 16 Nov. 2022
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There are more than 1,000 names in the database, and hundreds from just the last decade, but the questions remain the same: Why are young athletes still dying?
—Stephanie Kuzydym, courier-journal.com, 18 Apr. 2023
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What has been recalled in 2022?:Your complete database on all recalls, from food to cars.
—Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
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The scientists took whole blood from donors in a UK database and separated out the stem cells.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 9 Nov. 2022
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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
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The paper was uploaded to the preprint database arXiv, and has yet to be peer-reviewed.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
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There have been more shootings than any other January on the database’s records, which go back to 2014.
—Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
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But so far, the state’s database includes only the number of acres needing restoration.
—Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
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The seized Hansa database listed only the pseudonyms of the site's users, and each of those users' connections to the site had been obscured by Tor.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
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Newsweek could not confirm his status in the ICE online detention database on Thursday morning.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
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The database was used to rally gun owners’ electoral support for the industry’s preferred candidates running for the White House and Congress.
—Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2025
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