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format

[fawr-mat] / ˈfɔr mæt /




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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

A Harry Potter And The Cursed Child producer has said the rising cost of living made it "literally impossible" to retain the play's original format in two parts.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Pictures flash in an increasingly contrasty and grainy format until they are hardly recognizable.

From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers

A development this scale would typically include apartment buildings and other multiunit housing formats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Another high point this summer was the popularity of Imax and other enhanced formats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Over time, successful formats could be expanded into a broader lifestyle content strategy that supports both Walmart Connect and product sales,” the analysts said, referring to the name of Walmart’s retail media segment.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

She has seen formats incorporating sandwiches, hot dogs and pizzas, and toppings ranging from Nashville Hot chicken and bacon strips to elote and lobster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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

"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

Hip hop initially reached mass audiences through a subset of black radio stations, often those formatted as “urban contemporary.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 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

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

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 downplayed the reported inaccuracies on Thursday, attributing them to "formatting issues" and saying that the report would be updated.

From Salon ● May 29, 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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