format
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BBC Breakfast recently visited Collingham FC in Nottinghamshire to see how the coaches there were adapting to the new format.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The strip format is a logical evolution, she added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
After struggling in the format since their dismal World Cup defence in 2023, England have won three ODI series in a row this year as they build towards next year's World Cup.
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
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
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Some brands also promise that strips, compared to pills or other formats, can improve a dietary supplement’s bioavailability—or how much of a substance is effectively used by the body.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
That growth has been partly fueled by innovations in supplements’ formats.
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
Harry Brook captains England on both legs of the tour and is once again set to play across formats in every game of the winter.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Familiar examples include standardized weights and measures, electrical voltages and cables, computer file formats, and paper currency.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
The letter was formatted similarly to a diplomatic note and carried an official Cuban seal, the current U.S. official said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 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
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
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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