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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

From the makers of the extended, lightly thrilling 12-team postseason format comes an unsolicited supersizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Whether the new format improves the development of English footballers will not be clear for a few years yet.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The 3v3 format only lasts for 12 months, so goalkeepers do return from under-8 level when the game progresses to 5v5.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Although Dowland used ‘Flow, my tears’ as the basis for a set of purely instrumental pieces called Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares for strings and lute, songs remained, by and large, his format of choice.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 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

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

"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

Chris co-authored Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan’s memoir “How to Be a Man” and is the author of a memoir formatted as a pregnancy guide for men, “Rocking Fatherhood.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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

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

Voice writers repeat every word spoken in court along with a sequence of formatting commands to voice recognition software.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

I pleaded with the AI to fix formatting that would take just a few of my own keystrokes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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

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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