How to Use metadata in a Sentence
metadata
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For attackers, this kind of metadata is gold.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Dec. 2025
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Having a picture taken and stored on-chain is more than metadata.
—Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
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That descriptive layer of metadata is what makes any record findable and safe to use.
—Michael Leone, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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Moving the right bytes to the model fast is necessary work, but metadata alone isn’t enough.
—Michael Leone, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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As videos are reuploaded and shared by other accounts, that metadata can be lost in the process.
—PC Magazine, 20 Nov. 2025
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As videos are reuploaded and shared by other accounts, that metadata can be lost in the process.
—PC Magazine, 19 Nov. 2025
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Each agent’s input, output, latency and metadata should be logged.
—Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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But the girls denied sending the messages, and had the police search their phones for metadata, which didn’t bring up any links to the text messages.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
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The metadata should reveal when and where a photo or video was taken – if it was really ever taken.
—Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2025
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Bandwidth usage and app usage metadata are both retained for 36 months.
—PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
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That metadata is fungible, though.
—Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
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If posts contain pictures, uploaders are told to purge metadata from those file attachments.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2025
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Police and prosecutors will then check the metadata.
—Robert A. Cronkleton march 23, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2026
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This metadata included information about whom a user has called, when the call was placed, and how long these calls lasted.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2016
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These vendors’ currency is metadata, the data about your data.
—Michael Leone, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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Older mesh standards also leaked metadata that could reveal other group members.
—Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2025
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Agentic systems handle tasks like metadata tagging and data quality checks on their own.
—Robert Kramer, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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This is not tricky to understand, the way that NSA bulk collection of metadata might be.
—Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2026
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Most data products lack the metadata or lifecycle discipline to guide a model.
—Anuj Gupta, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
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While encrypted traffic from your device is protected, the metadata is not and the risk you will be redirected when browsing is high.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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Common causes include legacy storage, a lack of metadata and cost‑driven neglect.
—Daniel Fallmann, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Hosts must submit a manifest for every mini app and disclose detailed metadata for all in-app purchases.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2025
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Invest in metadata, semantic layers and indexing systems that describe what your data is, how to access it and how it can be used.
—Naren Narendran, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Anadol used MoMA's metadata to reimagine 200 years of art.
—Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
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Tracing a post’s origin often requires phone records, metadata and expert analysis.
—Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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The metadata tag, which can’t easily be tampered with, shows who created a piece of media, how it was made, and whether AI played a role.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
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Employees are being caught in the act in part because these images often contain metadata revealing their fake origins.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
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Standing up a metadata and governance layer for every piece of information in the enterprise is the key to success.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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Even taking a simple screenshot will result in an identical photo without all of the original metadata.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
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In contrast, raw-level tools, guided by file system metadata, may isolate and recover a single, more accurate file.
—Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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