format
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If this momentum continues, Pop Mart might need a new product format or another celebrity-endorsed character that can reignite conversation and the scarcity mindset that drove demand, the analyst said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
As to why people may still have interest in short-form content when many apps such as YouTube and TikTok have moved towards much longer videos, he compared Vine's format to the haiku.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Debate is one way to do that, but I’ve got to say, I struggle with that format.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
I want to keep telling stories only I can tell, in whatever format I can.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The séance format that they developed allowed three working-class, barely educated women to advise higher-class, well-educated men, who never would have listened otherwise.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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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
A video by “Sinners” filmmaker Ryan Coogler explaining aspect ratios and screen size became a viral hit; some fans used punchcards to note seeing the movie in all its possible exhibition formats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Popular formats can be added, she says, but they should not define the platform.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
OpenAI is spinning up carousel-style product ads in ChatGPT as it expands its e-commerce formats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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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"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
Kaufman Lynn, a Florida-based construction firm, built an agent using Procore’s technology that pulls data from nearly a dozen different tools and automatically creates a formatted monthly progress report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 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
Some journals are experimenting with artificial intelligence to screen submissions or flag common problems, like issues with document formatting.
From Slate ● May 3, 2026
My house is filled to overflowing with clothes I will never wear, books I will never read and pocket-size external hard drives I will never get around to formatting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The runaway success of “Squid Game” was definitive proof that audiences are looking for the spark of originality in familiar formatting, and that language is no barrier when it comes to streaming entertainment.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024
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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Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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