How to Use database in a Sentence

database

noun
Definition of databasenext
Synonyms for databasenext
  • All of our customers' information was kept in a database.
  • 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
  • In each case, the database says that advanced driver assist systems were in use at the time of the crash.
    — CBS News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The sister has 1,527 recipes in our New York Times Cooking database.
    — Kim Severson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • That is, if the suspect's DNA is in a law enforcement database.
    — Fox News, 24 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Fluker took a picture of the woman’s car tag and ran that through the law enforcement database.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 16 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The scientists took whole blood from donors in a UK database and separated out the stem cells.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 9 Nov. 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
  • The seized Hansa database listed only the pseudonyms of the site's users, and each of those users' connections to the site had been obscured by Tor.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • From there, reporters can access the database to see which lies are taking hold and which might be worth debunking.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2022
  • However, most of those in the Social Security database were no longer receiving monthly payments.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
  • But as independent journalist Jamie Dupree and others pointed out, someone went into the government database and changed the documents with no comment on the error — simply erasing the paper trail.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025

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