format
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A food festival cannot continue in its current format if visitor numbers do not improve, said organisers.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But this version of “A Different World” departs from its source material in its narrative format and tone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The restaurant at his casino, which used to operate around the clock, has laid off about 20 employees and switched to a buffet format that is open only in the morning.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Dick’s is also trying the change the format of Foot Locker from a wall of sneakers to clearly defined shoe categories.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Instead of a varied, magazine format, each episode follows a single story line — the exploits of an animated dog by the name of Blue.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Ingka Group is working to open more compact stores, part of a strategic move into more localized store formats to sell its furniture closer to its customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Freddie Davidson, Northampton: Who has the highest average across all formats over the last 10 years, all-format player?
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
In Instagram’s case, the brand also rolled out a new “brand system,” including new fonts, icons, and formats for posts.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Collecting 16 VistaVision titles, the series follows a recent uptick in audience interest concerning projection formats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Romeo and Juliet’s agonising predicament acts like wallpaper to nineteenth-century music: almost wherever you look it is lurking in the background, provoking decade-by-decade settings of many shapes, sizes and formats.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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"AI thrives on recognising patterns. And legal citations and arguments are always formatted in the same way, so it's easy for an AI to follow a template and generate fake ones," said Charlotin.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
However, Wells participated in a CBP webinar last week, so she knew how to create a properly formatted file herself, and quickly made her submission on Monday morning.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 20, 2026
Chris co-authored Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan’s memoir “How to Be a Man” and is the author of a memoir formatted as a pregnancy guide for men, “Rocking Fatherhood.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
His style was laid back, conversational and a contrast to the highly formatted slick patter of many other DJs.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
Lon Teter arrived in the final month to serve as, in effect, production foreman—getting an immense and complicated body of work checked, formatted, and into the paper on time.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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While both phones and laptops now have high-quality cameras, the formatting is a dead giveaway that you’re not on a laptop, says Melissa Marcus, a career coach who worked as a recruiter for 20 years.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Voice writers repeat every word spoken in court along with a sequence of formatting commands to voice recognition software.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
I pleaded with the AI to fix formatting that would take just a few of my own keystrokes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Some journals are experimenting with artificial intelligence to screen submissions or flag common problems, like issues with document formatting.
From Slate ● May 3, 2026
She wasn’t using a word-processing program of any kind—in fact, she was bypassing much of the operating system—and whatever formatting was imposing itself on the words, it wasn’t hers.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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