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format

[fawr-mat] / ˈfɔr mæt /




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The updated format was developed by the NHC in 2024, and the findings were published in the American Meteorological Society journal Weather, Climate, and Society.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

The strip format is a logical evolution, she added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

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

I wanted to take pictures in the digital format, which could be uploaded, not developed.

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

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

Star opener Smriti Mandhana, her long-time deputy, has been appointed captain across all formats.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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

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

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

His style was laid back, conversational and a contrast to the highly formatted slick patter of many other DJs.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024

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

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

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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