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format

[fawr-mat] / ˈfɔr mæt /




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Another parent, Hannah, added: "My son has an older brother so he is used to playing in the more traditional format, so for him it has taken a bit of adapting."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The strip format is a logical evolution, she added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The smaller-sized format can pose logistical issues, with more games and more coaches and volunteers needed to oversee them.

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

Like most books nowadays, it was only available in electronic format.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

Meta introduced ad formats that echo TV’s strengths, including an “Ads Super Burst” letting brands reserve time slots from three to 24 hours and, in some cases, secure category exclusivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Restaurant chains are redesigning menus with new portion sizes and formats to attract price-conscious consumers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Prior to the injury, the Durham man was an international regular across formats and was the only England seamer to play in all five Tests in Australia.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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

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

The neon signs, which include protest language and adapt time-honored slogans, are formatted as storefront installations and signs for lawns and demonstrations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025

“Yeah. I like how you’ve formatted your skill set.”

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

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

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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