format
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While his appearances in the One-Day Cup this summer were his first in the 50-over format of white-ball cricket since the 2023 World Cup.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
As far as The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson was concerned, “Rubber Soul” marked the invention of the album as a long-playing musical format.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Every new format of art has the potential to make something good.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026
A supersizing of the series format, it doesn’t significantly alter the rangy charm of Wilson’s video-captured eccentricities, a sturdy foundation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
In the last centuries before 3000 B.C., developments in accounting technology, format, and signs rapidly led to the first system of writing.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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A drive-through brand opening walk-up shops also flips the recent strategic swerve by chains like Shake Shack and Chipotle toward car-centric formats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The team looked at different game formats and cast about for manufacturers that could supply individual components before settling on a hybrid approach that relied on one main manufacturer and several smaller suppliers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
"I loved coaching all three formats," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
A development this scale would typically include apartment buildings and other multiunit housing formats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The data transfer rate just isn’t good enough for the size of music files, even in compressed formats.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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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
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
The letter was formatted similarly to a diplomatic note and carried an official Cuban seal, the current U.S. official said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 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
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
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
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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