format
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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
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
Rao’s company has pioneered a work flow software program with a standardized format that makes the outsourcing of tax returns cheap and easy.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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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
New York Times product-review site Wirecutter is looking beyond affiliate revenue with new editorial formats and franchises that marketers can sponsor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Star opener Smriti Mandhana, her long-time deputy, has been appointed captain across all formats.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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
Kaufman Lynn, a Florida-based construction firm, built an agent using Procore’s technology that pulls data from nearly a dozen different tools and automatically creates a formatted monthly progress report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
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
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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
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
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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