DAT
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DAT
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dat.
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DAT
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dat.
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The intermodal spot rate was well below the $3.05 a mile average spot rate for the most common type of big rigs for the week ending June 13, according to DAT Freight & Analytics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Hyperliquid Strategies serves as a digital-asset treasury company, or DAT.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 2026
Created by study co-author Jay Olson, the DAT asks participants, whether human or AI, to list ten words that are as unrelated in meaning as possible.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026
The group said DAT officers treat them with disdain and routinely initiate negative interactions.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
One was running CNN’s Web site through a DAT projector, throwing oversized current-affairs images against the back wall.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
“Naw, naw, Janie. Ah know better’n dat. But since you got dat in yo’ head, Ah’ll have tuh tell yuh de real truth, so yuh can know.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
“Dat’s too bad. But Rev’un Shegog’ll kyo dat. He'll give her de comfort en de unburdenin.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
“Lawd knows dat. Go git it, den,” she said, rising.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
“Tell me dat. Go on now,” she said, toiling upward.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Commanding, dat. w. verbs of, 187, II; —— subst. clause w. verbs of, 295, 1; —— commands expressed by jussive subjv.,
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
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