format
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Much of the format is expected to stay the same in any new LIV - a shotgun start, team competition, music blaring from speakers and party holes.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
As to why people may still have interest in short-form content when many apps such as YouTube and TikTok have moved towards much longer videos, he compared Vine's format to the haiku.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Upcoming films including the Tom Cruise-starring “Digger” and Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” are reported to have been shot using the format.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Debate is one way to do that, but I’ve got to say, I struggle with that format.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Printing out the list would make a big stack of paper—unless you know how to format, which I do.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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"I want to be involved in all formats of the game because it's a wonderful place to be," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
The videos appear to adopt Gen Z language and formats, but fail to address concerns that fuelled the protests, she adds.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
While the Chinese social-media company’s 2Q results were better than Citi expected, its management flagged challenges including a shift in advertising preference toward higher return-on-investment formats, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In Instagram’s case, the brand also rolled out a new “brand system,” including new fonts, icons, and formats for posts.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 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
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
“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
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
All memos in the governor’s office are written in 12 point Century Gothic font with specific spacing between lines, formatting that his aides say helps him with his disability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 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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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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