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a single piece of information
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Recent Examples of datum
There were 270 overdose deaths last year, which is 300 fewer deaths than at the peak of the opioid crisis in 2017, according to data from the Hamilton County Coroner's Office.
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Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
So far in 2025, at least 12 teens have been killed in shootings in Florida, with five of them in the South Florida area, data from the Gun Violence Archive shows.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025
County data shows San Diego Unified could be short $11.8 million for the coming school year.
—Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
Those are some of the main findings of a new data analysis of pedestrian fatalities released Thursday by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), a nonprofit organization representing state highway safety offices.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
So far in 2025, at least 12 teens have been killed in shootings in Florida, with five of them in the South Florida area, data from the Gun Violence Archive shows.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025
County data shows San Diego Unified could be short $11.8 million for the coming school year.
—Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
Those are some of the main findings of a new data analysis of pedestrian fatalities released Thursday by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), a nonprofit organization representing state highway safety offices.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for datum
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Kamut 10 grams per cup cooked Like farro, kamut is a type of wheat; in fact, the term kamut is the ancient Egyptian word for it.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
15 July 2025
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In fact, as more of us spend more and more time looking at screens rather than at each other, loneliness is one of the greatest and most underestimated health challenges of our time.—
Sylvana Quader Sinha,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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The hotel’s resident nutritionist, Charlotte LaGuardia Abbate (MS, CNS, CDN) takes you through the earliest form of food preservation, diving into the details of fermenting your own food and learning about the changes that occur during this natural process.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
9 July 2025
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Five years of inspection reports released to The Associated Press do not offer any details of those plans at Mystic, raising new questions about the camp’s preparedness ahead of the torrential July 4 rainfall in flood-prone Texas Hill Country.—
Jim Mustian,
Fortune,
9 July 2025
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“Datum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/datum. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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