format
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The strip format is a logical evolution, she added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
With the new format having only been introduced a few weeks ago, it will take some time before teams and coaches have been able to fully adapt.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Many observers criticised the format of the debate, which was described as chaotic at times, with each of the candidates pacing around the TV studio as the other was speaking.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Saudi authorities are considering a hybrid event format to allow international figures to attend the conference online.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
They were used to the format, at least.
From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper
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During the company’s last earnings call, Sarandos emphasized that building up these new formats takes time and that they are “evolutionary, not revolutionary.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Restaurant chains are redesigning menus with new portion sizes and formats to attract price-conscious consumers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
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
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
Mr Schmidt warned employers to look out for indicators of fraudulent North Korean job applications, including incorrectly formatted phone numbers and mismatched education histories.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
“Yeah. I like how you’ve formatted your skill set.”
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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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
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
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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