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After IBM’s Deep Blue beat world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, chess began experimenting with a format that allowed human players to consult computer engines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Vinyl records have seen a major resurgence ever since millennials brought the format back into mainstream culture in the 2010s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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
The format sold 46.8 million units, against 29.5 million CDs in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Unlike our World Cup format, the individual event at the Olympics was held on one day.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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In total, Turner played 51 matches for Hampshire across all formats, taking 97 wickets.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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
Cricket statisticians include The Hundred data in T20 records, meaning Buttler now has 14,833 runs in the shortest formats.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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
Public subsidy allowed formats that had become financially unviable - such as the nineteenth-century symphony orchestra - to prosper somewhat artificially in the twentieth century, justified by the preservation of heritage.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
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
"They have become a very deliberate programmed and formatted team."
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
“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
Spelling mistakes and formatting errors throughout the proclamations have made identifying exempted plants a guessing game.
From Salon ● May 10, 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
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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