format
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Ben Earl has called for a change to the Nations Championship format after England's "brutal" schedule in the summer leg of the inaugural competition.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The new format, expanding team participation from 32 to 48, has brought to center stage smaller, underdog countries that have outperformed expectations, produced unexpected heroes and warmed our collective hearts.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
The unprecedented ticket mayhem built hype — not just for the film, but for the format.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
"It's a very tough format to be consistent and over 23 years no-one's defended it so hopefully we can be the first this year."
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Like most books nowadays, it was only available in electronic format.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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“What’s special about these — about running on film, about running 70mm, about handling premium large formats — is that it does remind people how much they love going to the movies,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The company said in a news release that it would focus on developing different restaurant formats in addition to stand-alone sites to adapt to different real estate spaces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Since being promoted to open the batting in 2016, Beaumont was a regular in England's top order across formats until she lost her place in the Commonwealth Games squad in 2022.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The company is working to keep prices in check, as U.S. consumers fixate on affordability and buyers shift toward bulk or budget pack sizes, passing over middle formats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
It confesses to writing like “a painfully neutral Midwestern news anchor reading off a perfectly formatted teleprompter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
The letters poured in and Baxter set up a complicated card index system so children would get personal replies rather than a formatted letter.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
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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Spelling mistakes and formatting errors throughout the proclamations have made identifying exempted plants a guessing game.
From Salon ● May 10, 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
But they demand long hours—sometimes over 100-hour weeks—spent doing basic tasks, like formatting slide decks or filling in spreadsheets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said there were "formatting issues" and the report would be updated, but it did "not negate the substance of the report".
From BBC ● May 30, 2025
The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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