How to Use database in a Sentence

database

noun
  • All of our customers' information was kept in a database.
  • Many of our financial systems around the world rely on centralized servers, databases and transaction ledgers.
    Zain Jaffer, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Another database shows a 77-year-old man with a similar name owning the property.
    Daniel Miller Los Angeles Times (tns), arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Long said the agency’s report was based upon the actual entries made in the database by prosecutors when recording their work.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The prosecutor’s office has also created a new digital database that will track warrant requests through to their completion.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
  • When users run the over-the-shelf version of the Geekbench 5 benchmarking tool, the scores are logged to a public database of results and are tied to entries for specific hardware.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And finally, through the FBIs database, there was a match.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
  • Now, the lub-dub is drawn from a database of real human hearts.
    Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Yahsir's name did not show up in an online database of court records.
    Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2023
  • After all, Lauren added her DNA to the database to help find her bio parents.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • To produce these designs, the couple start with a database of thousands of plant species.
    Time, 3 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Your complete database on all recalls, from food to cars.
    Dian Zhang, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Hellman says the ink may now be in the database, which could help accurately date the diary.
    Jacque Smith, CNN, 7 Oct. 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
  • What has been recalled in 2022?:Your complete database on all recalls, from food to cars.
    Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • But so far, the state’s database includes only the number of acres needing restoration.
    Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
  • About six years ago, the database of its core shoppers, who typically stayed with the brand for 18 years, was shrinking.
    Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 21 Jan. 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
  • The Field Museum has a database where anyone can search the scientific name of a species.
    Kate Linderman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 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

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