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format

[fawr-mat] / ˈfɔr mæt /




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The new individual pizza format is being championed by Domino’s incoming chief executive Joe Jordan, who rose up through the company’s innovation arm.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Are there any changes that you would make to the format in your quest for realness and authenticity?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

“They challenge some of the old ways of just approaching docs as a format of naturalist storytelling,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Fast-growing shopping app Whatnot is now valued at $20 billion, nearly double the $11.5 billion valuation it hit in October, after a new round of funding from investors eager to bet on its live-shopping format.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Since they’re quite varied in format and often incomparable and very numerous, people can’t act on all of them.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Patrick: Particularly if you want to be a global brand, you have to show up almost everywhere in as many formats, channels and languages as possible while still sticking to your singular brand ethos.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 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

"We've got an incredibly strong membership, incredible attendances across formats and we are based in London. It's a really attractive proposition."

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

In interviews with more than 10 theatergoers, MarketWatch found that almost every consumer said they could spot the differences among premium formats, with screen scale serving as the primary differentiator.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

Because these tools are delivered over the Internet and written in standard Web formats, they are accessible to anyone who has an Internet connection and are easily interoperable with any business.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

"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

After leaving ESPN, Bayless joined Fox Sports, where he co-hosted similarly formatted show “Undisputed” — for much of the time with co-host Shannon Sharpe — from 2016- to 2024.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 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

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

Some journals are experimenting with artificial intelligence to screen submissions or flag common problems, like issues with document formatting.

From Slate May 3, 2026

In a moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admits to feeling “like an editor who stayed up too late formatting the memo.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed the reported inaccuracies on Thursday, attributing them to "formatting issues" and saying that the report would be updated.

From Salon May 29, 2025

While I was formatting the text from earlier—the one for Another Rachel—a new submission popped up.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows




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