formats
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Much in the same way Slate was early to formats that would come to dominate digital publishing—explainers, deliberately counterintuitive arguments, chat podcasts—so too were we early progenitors of the internet listicle.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
By 1943 servicemen could receive illustrated magazines, such as Newsweek and Time, in reduced-size formats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
A drive-through brand opening walk-up shops also flips the recent strategic swerve by chains like Shake Shack and Chipotle toward car-centric formats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Archer is a first choice in all three formats for England and his absence from the Pakistan trip is a clear indication of how the pace bowlers could be managed across the winter.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Public subsidy allowed formats that had become financially unviable - such as the nineteenth-century symphony orchestra - to prosper somewhat artificially in the twentieth century, justified by the preservation of heritage.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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