format
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“There are more than 110,000 plates with the ‘0AAA000’ format that remain to be issued and are stored throughout DMV and auto club offices across California,” Ongtoaboc said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The format essentially combines the portability of a smartphone with the larger display of a tablet, offering users a bigger screen without carrying a tablet-sized device.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
A food festival cannot continue in its current format if visitor numbers do not improve, said organisers.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Investors have long wanted greater transparency around Azure, and the new format takes a meaningful step in that direction,” Lee said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Biber’s ‘Guardian Angel’ is an especially interesting piece because it is constructed in a format known as a ‘Passacaglia’, which divided moral opinion in the seventeenth century but continues to influence music today.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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This year her department has a slate of 44 new and returning scripted series from the U.S. and Canada, excluding stand-up, comedy formats and adult animation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Over time, successful formats could be expanded into a broader lifestyle content strategy that supports both Walmart Connect and product sales,” the analysts said, referring to the name of Walmart’s retail media segment.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Ingka Group is working to open more compact stores, part of a strategic move into more localized store formats to sell its furniture closer to its customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
He has subsequently rebuilt his career to become an England regular across formats.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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
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
It confesses to writing like “a painfully neutral Midwestern news anchor reading off a perfectly formatted teleprompter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 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
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
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
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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