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format

[fawr-mat] / ˈfɔr mæt /




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As far as The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson was concerned, “Rubber Soul” marked the invention of the album as a long-playing musical format.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The short-video format leaves little room for nuance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Every new format of art has the potential to make something good.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

A supersizing of the series format, it doesn’t significantly alter the rangy charm of Wilson’s video-captured eccentricities, a sturdy foundation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

So I put the whole list into seven-point type, single-space it, format it into six columns, and print it out.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

Baker endured difficult debuts in all three international formats, yet in this series has started to show his potential.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

OpenAI has introduced new ad formats, a self-serve platform, and a tool to track user purchase activity after clicking ads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

OpenAI’s newer ad products are now beginning to resemble some of those offered by Google, Meta and Amazon, including pay-per-click formats and carousels that show multiple products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

This year her department has a slate of 44 new and returning scripted series from the U.S. and Canada, excluding stand-up, comedy formats and adult animation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

"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 neon signs, which include protest language and adapt time-honored slogans, are formatted as storefront installations and signs for lawns and demonstrations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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

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

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

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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