How to Use metadata in a Sentence

metadata

noun
  • If the right metadata is in the system, that means a lot more people will get paid.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
  • It’s metadata that comes along with the content and tells the TV how to adjust for the best picture.
    Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 8 July 2020
  • Your phone calls, your metadata, your bank records, your visa records.
    Fox News, 18 July 2018
  • The first is to add metadata, which cameras have been doing for decades.
    WIRED, 27 July 2023
  • Those fresh uploads allowed the Dutch cops to scrape the metadata from a vast new batch of images.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The metadata said the work selfie was taken at 4:47 p.m.
    Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • This will edit your files’ metadata, adding the correct tags and even the album art to each one.
    Justin Pot, Popular Science, 11 May 2023
  • The same is true for voice calls and metadata: A user’s address book and group chat titles are just as safe.
    Kai Ye, WIRED, 23 July 2023
  • The metadata creation dates align with the content of the documents.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
  • All told, the team sorted through metadata for some 1.3 million books.
    Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2017
  • However, in some places, such as its metadata on Google it is still referred to as a bank.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
  • All documents for the transaction are in the public metadata of the NFT.
    Rex Salisbury, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • An analysis of that metadata shows that the ads racked up very few impressions, but that the click-through rate on the ads was very, very, very high.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Sproule says her team also wants to go back into their archives and add metadata to those files.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Finder will now show you metadata on photos and videos, too.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 26 June 2018
  • The Information Man knows photos don’t stay put in books, but are sources of metadata.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Then, one Mafia member mentioned that Uber kept metadata on the accounts.
    Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
  • Google Play tends to be more thorough with its data and with nuances due to its vast Knowledge Graph metadata.
    Mario J. Lucero, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Politico provided the draft opinion in PDF form, taking care to redact any metadata that might lead back to a source...
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 3 May 2022
  • In these PCNs, the control plane (the part of the network controlling how data is sent) and the data plane (the data and metadata) are hosted in the cloud.
    Bill Geary, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Others attempted to extract the time from EXIF metadata in the image.
    Avi Selk, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2017
  • In other instances, Google might offer metadata as well—when, where, and how the photo was captured.
    WIRED, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The metadata collected by the NSA in general included information on the phone number called, the number the call is made from, and the date and length of time of the call.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Its metadata show that the image was taken by a mobile phone on February 28 near the location of one of the Smerch attacks.
    CNN, 12 May 2022
  • The metadata of the original clip showed it was captured Wednesday morning.
    Daniel Victor, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
  • This metadata may be a bit harder to scrub clean than removing the watermark.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
  • This study is the first, to our knowledge, to report a manipulation of metadata.
    Lonni Besançon, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2024
  • In total, the ads received just over 80 clicks, according to the metadata released by Facebook.
    Issie Lapowsky, WIRED, 12 May 2018
  • WhatsApp actually does collect metadata and hand it over to governments.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Kosinski spoke about the importance and benefits of having correct metadata, with an explanation of this service.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2024

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