How to Use datum in a Sentence

datum

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  • At the end of the process, there is no record of the original training data inside the model.
    — Joella Carman, NBC News, 17 May 2023
  • Decibel had a staff of 68 last year, according to the data firm PitchBook.
    — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • During all of the tests, images of people’s faces were blurred and data was kept for a maximum of 14 days.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The airport was the 4th most complained about on Twitter according to Price4Limo data.
    — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2023
  • The team is still processing data for lemon trees and alfalfa.
    — The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
  • There were 57 people shot, 5 of them fatally, in the same period last year, data show.
    — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
  • Last year, three people were killed in pursuits by troopers, state police data shows, up from none in 2021.
    — Grant Lancaster, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The procedure is so new that there is not yet published data to compare the results with standard surgery.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The act of collecting this data is a sweeping form of surveillance no matter the target.
    — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Always back up your iPhone first, then factory reset it to wipe your data.
    — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The real-world consequences of this data use in AI range from lawsuits to racial profiling.
    — Janet Vertesi, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023
  • They’re bonded face-to-face, and through-silicon vias carry data and power to both.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Experts have previously stated that few abortions happen in the second and third trimesters and the data showed just that.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl.
    — Gary Trust, Billboard, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Those efforts are reflected, in some ways, in the data provided by the department.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
  • In looking at the data there may be a few light showers in the morning and then a more organized round of showers in the afternoon and evening before coming to an end.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • The phosphine not only wasn’t a signal of life, but probably wasn’t even there at all, a swing-and-a-miss of data interpretation.
    — Jaime Green, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But some data do suggest that patients who take Paxlovid clear out coronavirus from their bodies faster.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Lyons added authorities also used cell phone data and video to help find her remains.
    — Rosa Flores, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • To be sure, our data for women’s time as CEO is drawn from a small sample size—the very problem that makes tenures and chief executive churn relevant.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Aside from the mass shooting, there have been 5 homicides and 10 nonfatal shootings in Brooklyn so far this year, according to city data.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2023
  • Besides the lost data, replacing four expensive devices would have been hard for her little NGO to do.
    — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The actual gap between them (7%), based on historical data, suggests the Colts should be a slight favorite at home.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Specifically, the software must be fed vast amounts of training data (here, examples of music) and process it.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
  • Six of the recent deaths happened in just a four-day period, from July 18 to 21, according to the police department’s data.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
  • Ransomware attacks hold a victim’s data hostage in exchange for payment.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Inmarsat used the data to determine the plane flew south into the Indian Ocean rather than bank north over continental Asia.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Recent data appeared to have helped shift Powell’s thinking.
    — Chris Rugaber, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Atlanta has emerged as one of the country’s six top data center markets, which accounted for 72% of development in the sector last year.
    — Zachary Hansen, ajc, 1 Sep. 2023
  • According to the complaint, Google continued to store users’ location data even after the setting was turned off.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023

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