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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sproule says her team also wants to go back into their archives and add metadata to those files.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The Information Man knows photos don’t stay put in books, but are sources of metadata.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Removing this metadata frees up space on the HDD for user data.
    Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • There’s some hope for truth seekers, as Google says the metadata will note whether Magic Editor was employed.
    WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The news release was authored by Friess, according to the metadata of a copy posted online that day by a TV news station in Michigan.
    Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The metadata of a version of the affidavit posted to the attorney’s website lists Friess as the creator of the document the previous month.
    Jon Swaine, Emma Brown and Jacqueline Alemany, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Using metadata can remove the need to use language tricks to know an utterance is related to IT or HR.
    Dan Turchin, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Videos and photos are shared and reshared online, sometimes in ways that mask or overwrite the file’s original metadata.
    Leila Barghouty, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Pro-democracy campaigner Kyaw (not his real name), did not worry much about his metadata even when the coup shocked the country.
    Morgan Meaker, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
  • These telltale signs can include elements in the metadata of a file or subtle markers in the pixels themselves.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 12 June 2020
  • Now that the emergence was over, Kritsky the next goal is getting photos and metadata from the app stored on a permanent storage system, so it can be accessed in the future.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Discogs has exacting standards for the metadata that sellers have to supply in order to list their vinyl for sale on Discogs Marketplace.
    Bill Rosenblatt, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • This is very straightforward, and the marketplaces, such as OpenSea, walk you through the process of creating and adding the necessary and optional metadata.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 11 July 2022

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