This style, combined with the tendency invent new terminology for standard concepts, makes searching the patent database almost impossible.

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The best part, if we don't find the contact, we automatically start searching your corp database.

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Anadir has set up a database to register the DNA of parents searching for their children.

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The connection would have eluded most database-searching tools, which require at least one perfect match to construct a thread of related transactions.

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This involves searching for close, though not exact, matches in the DNA database, in the knowledge that such hits could represent family members of a suspect.

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They were selected by searching its database, using keywords taken from an essay about Miksys that had been prepared for the Artes Mundi 5 exhibition catalogue.

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