data bank

noun

: database

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Some of these companies, like 54gene which is building a DNA data bank of people of African ancestry, are first movers with potential to be unique across the world. — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 19 July 2022 Owner-chairman Tony Bloom’s worldwide data bank has helped Brighton make some shrewd deals, but has their strong trading reputation been tarnished during the first two years of Hurzeler’s reign? — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 15 June 2026 The data bank that enabled this was Bollinger’s Wine Library, a unique collection of vintages going back generations that had been compiled from stock lying for years in the far reaches of the house’s cellars. — WIRED, 8 Oct. 2022 Hallucinations can happen at each step throughout an AI model’s thinking process, particularly when prompts require information outside of a model’s data bank. — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for data bank

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First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of data bank was in 1966

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data bank

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