format
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Debate is one way to do that, but I’ve got to say, I struggle with that format.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
His comment was among more than 900 submissions that appeared to follow a chain-letter format promoted by We the Investors, an advocacy group for retail investors formed after the 2021 GameStop frenzy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
"This is the biggest win so far for Bangladesh in any format," captain Najmul Hossain Shanto said.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Riso al forno — literally “rice from the oven” — is Italian baked rice, an adaptable format in which partially cooked rice finishes with sauce and cheese.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
They are larger than my usual format, and space out the wall nicely.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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At this point, it's probably worth noting that no man has scored more international runs across formats since Brook made his Test debut in 2022.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Patrick: Particularly if you want to be a global brand, you have to show up almost everywhere in as many formats, channels and languages as possible while still sticking to your singular brand ethos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"We've got an incredibly strong membership, incredible attendances across formats and we are based in London. It's a really attractive proposition."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
For movie enthusiasts, the appeal of premium formats is not just about having a larger screen.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Romeo and Juliet’s agonising predicament acts like wallpaper to nineteenth-century music: almost wherever you look it is lurking in the background, provoking decade-by-decade settings of many shapes, sizes and formats.
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
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
Mr Schmidt warned employers to look out for indicators of fraudulent North Korean job applications, including incorrectly formatted phone numbers and mismatched education histories.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
“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
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
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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