as in fact
a single piece of information
let's begin our discussion of this matter with a datum from actual experience
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The violence marked the 53rd mass shooting of 2025, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive.
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Chris Boyette, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
She's teamed up with other scientists to try to preserve federal health data that has recently disappeared from government websites.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 23 Mar. 2025
Anise says the company researches how to change its training data and adjust user prompts to generate less biased videos.
—Reece Rogers, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2025
That proprietary data is now so accessible has only shortened this window even more than, say, a decade ago.
—Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
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Chris Boyette, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
She's teamed up with other scientists to try to preserve federal health data that has recently disappeared from government websites.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 23 Mar. 2025
Anise says the company researches how to change its training data and adjust user prompts to generate less biased videos.
—Reece Rogers, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2025
That proprietary data is now so accessible has only shortened this window even more than, say, a decade ago.
—Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
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“Datum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/datum. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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