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
The company is developing a smaller store format to roll out in the U.S., helping it to compete with Dutch Bros and other fast-growing beverage chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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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The former Hampshire man is rewarded for consistent performances across formats in domestic cricket.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
OpenAI’s newer ad products are now beginning to resemble some of those offered by Google, Meta and Amazon, including pay-per-click formats and carousels that show multiple products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
They switch formats to begin a white-ball series against Sri Lanka in Southampton on Tuesday, with Brendon McCullum back in charge and Kevin Pietersen as part of the coaching staff.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
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
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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
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
“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
Some journals are experimenting with artificial intelligence to screen submissions or flag common problems, like issues with document formatting.
From Slate ● May 3, 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
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed the reported inaccuracies on Thursday, attributing them to "formatting issues" and saying that the report would be updated.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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