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format

[fawr-mat] / ˈfɔr mæt /




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Since the beginning of 2025, he averages 70 in this format.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Before the start of every Test both captains are asked about how special it is to play the format and whether they would like to do so more often.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

But with the expanded field, it was a round-of-32 game against a Bosnia-Herzegovina team that finished third in its group and likely would not have qualified for the tournament under the old format.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2026

“She’s an improviser,” Mr. Fortner—whose work with Ms. Salvant over the past decade has ranged from duo format to this orchestral setting—told me.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

This was the legacy of Sesame Street: If you paid careful attention to the structure and format of your material, you could dramatically enhance stickiness.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

The company said in a news release that it would focus on developing different restaurant formats in addition to stand-alone sites to adapt to different real estate spaces.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

For some urban commuters, the new city location offers a better experience than older formats.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Titmouse’s work, in development by a number of directors with contrasting tones, will be shown on a variety of formats, ranging from cinema screens to full-room projections.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

Nestlé has also been introducing new formats focused around protein and fiber, like its chocolate malt Milo drink in a high-protein format, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Familiar examples include standardized weights and measures, electrical voltages and cables, computer file formats, and paper currency.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"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

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

The letters poured in and Baxter set up a complicated card index system so children would get personal replies rather than a formatted letter.

From BBC Aug. 11, 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

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

Some journals are experimenting with artificial intelligence to screen submissions or flag common problems, like issues with document formatting.

From Slate May 3, 2026

However, one reviewer on the GoodReads website claimed the book appeared to be "written by ChatGPT", while another noted the "bizarre formatting, typos and repetitive turns of phrase".

From BBC Mar. 20, 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

She wasn’t using a word-processing program of any kind—in fact, she was bypassing much of the operating system—and whatever formatting was imposing itself on the words, it wasn’t hers.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman




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