How to Use database in a Sentence

database

noun
  • All of our customers' information was kept in a database.
  • The Field Museum has a database where anyone can search the scientific name of a species.
    Kate Linderman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Last year, international law enforcement shut down the hacking site and seized RaidForums’ user database.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 14 Apr. 2023
  • And finally, through the FBIs database, there was a match.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
  • The photos are in the process of being removed from the training database, Thiel said.
    Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The state wage-theft database only indicated the date when the case was first opened.
    Joel Jacobs, ProPublica, 15 July 2024
  • Hellman says the ink may now be in the database, which could help accurately date the diary.
    Jacque Smith, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • The paper was uploaded to the preprint database arXiv, and has yet to be peer-reviewed.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
  • But so far, the state’s database includes only the number of acres needing restoration.
    Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The network is reported to have a database of 2.7 million of these orphaned domains and runs tests to check which ones are best to use.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 8 June 2024
  • One post said the person had uploaded a large database of Ashkenazi Jews.
    Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Police killed the highest number of people on record last year, according to the database.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
  • The owner is responsible for the integrity of the data in that database.
    Gene Marks, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Reform activists cheered the creation of the database, which is the first central statewide list of police discipline.
    Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The information is added to a database that can be used to match evidence in other crimes.
    Mikenzie Frost, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2024
  • His bond was set at $2 million on Friday, according to a court database.
    Sara Smart, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • This time the researchers set up a separate database for each file, rather than one database with many files, as is the case in most data storage.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • And many point to Polt and a few other diehards, like Ted Munk and his enormous database of machines, for inspiration.
    cincinnati.com, 10 May 2023
  • When able, Susskind and her team will use a cemetery database to identify graves by their locations.
    Allison Kiehl, The Enquirer, 3 July 2024
  • In the meantime, a search of the nursing board’s online database shows Rupp-Jones’ license is active but includes a note that formal charges have been filed against her.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Trump was expected to be swabbed for DNA, which goes into a database and is required in the federal court system.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 13 June 2023
  • The trial also determined that the Air Force had not been reporting criminal records to the database for decades.
    Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2023
  • Poshmark has added about 100 million listings to the database and continues to add more to fine tune the technology.
    Byjohn Kell, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The phone number wasn’t known to the student or law enforcement running it through various databases, deputies said.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Parsons and his colleagues mapped the city on a grid and then consulted a database that included the footprint and total height of every building in the city.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 26 May 2023
  • Fugitives on assault or murder charges are exactly the kind of people its databases should flag.
    Jane Bradley, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The site will now be listed in the country’s national monuments database.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The database spread from the chat: other Web sites published its contents, and journalists and researchers soon confirmed that among the Iron March users were at least eight active-duty American service members.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024

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