database

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Recent Examples of database The emails, exchanged between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) staff and contractors, allow officers to instantly compare biometrics like faces and fingerprints against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases, according to 404 Media. Theo Burman billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025 One is known as the Brady database — a reference to the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brady vs. Maryland, which says prosecutors are required to turn over evidence that could be favorable to a defendant, including evidence of police misconduct. James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025 The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has sought, and nearly always received, access to Social Security numbers, addresses, medical histories, tax histories, welfare benefits, bank accounts, immigration statuses and federal employee databases. Julia Shapero, The Hill, 25 June 2025 Traditional sales teams rely on static database snapshots, such as Crunchbase for funding rounds, ZoomInfo for contact lists, Bombora for intent signals, BuiltWith for tech stack identification and Apollo for bulk lead lists. Fenil Suchak, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for database
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Noun
  • Simple adjustments such as cropping and rotating worked, but more complex adjustments and filters would strip out the HDR information, resulting in a significant loss of quality.
    Paul Monckton, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Currently, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it has yet to be determined.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • In 2023 and the first months of 2024, his name cropped up in a lot of excitable articles in the Rio de Janeiro press.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • Thank you to David Cox for additional research and reporting on this article.
    Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025

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