How to Use data in a Sentence

data

noun
Definition of datanext
Synonyms for datanext
  • This data doesn’t show the meat of the fundraising, though.
    — Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Corrections in the data are made from day to day by the state.
    — Rich Exner, cleveland, 10 July 2020
  • When the worst happens, there is no data that can make the rise worth the fall.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2019
  • There are hints of the shift in other data on mail voting.
    — Bryan Anderson and Nicholas Riccardi, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The data provided few signs of a run-up in wage growth.
    — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • The idea that these apps might be selling your data isn’t new.
    — Rachel Wells, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2019
  • That’s where the new tech data could one day come into play.
    — Alex Morris, The Cut, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The next person who rents that car has access to all your data.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Getting all of this data back to Earth will take up to two years.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 27 Dec. 2018
  • And there's the size of that remodel as well in that data, too.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 13 May 2020
  • In fact, the store of data Koon draws on is even larger than that.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The trend has grown over 70% in the last decade, the data shows.
    — Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN, 21 Dec. 2019
  • But dozens of data points aren’t useful during the ride.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2017
  • That’s where fiber optics—and the mountains of data—come in.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
  • And the people who need the shot (all of us) might not even have the right data to know the difference.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The smaller those errors are, the more accurate the data will be.
    — Aggie Yellow Horse, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Frequently the party had to hack its way through the bush to collect data.
    — Scientific American, 14 July 2020
  • And the data doesn't show any signs of a coming slow down or any signs of likely action.
    — NBC News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The data also showed that car crashes involving deer spiked in the fall.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Children are born with the tools, and the urge, to gather and evaluate data.
    — Susan Engel, Time, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Realme also has plans for an update that will show a step counter and data usage.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2023
  • From there, teams can add their own data sets to tailor the analysis to their own needs.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2019
  • That data also changed our perspective of the universe – and our place in it.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2018
  • This data is in turn being used to inform health research.
    — Angela Saini, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The problem is that our data is leaky, dirty, and insecure.
    — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Every bit, the smallest unit of data, has to be either a zero or a one.
    — Arthur Herman, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • President Biden tried to put an upbeat spin on the new data.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Our effort to collect this data shows a glimmer of its promise.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Users can also check for other data leaks on haveibeenpwned.com.
    — Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2020
  • There are still no set legal standards for how and when this new type of data should be admitted.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 3 Mar. 2020

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