format
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With the new format having only been introduced a few weeks ago, it will take some time before teams and coaches have been able to fully adapt.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The strip format is a logical evolution, she added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
One of the more criticised aspects of the new, smaller format is the lack of goalkeepers, with some concerns over how that might impact their development.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Saudi authorities are considering a hybrid event format to allow international figures to attend the conference online.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
I would use them here, but I really don’t think they are appropriate in this format.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
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Some brands also promise that strips, compared to pills or other formats, can improve a dietary supplement’s bioavailability—or how much of a substance is effectively used by the body.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Restaurant chains are redesigning menus with new portion sizes and formats to attract price-conscious consumers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Harry Brook captains England on both legs of the tour and is once again set to play across formats in every game of the winter.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Much in the same way Slate was early to formats that would come to dominate digital publishing—explainers, deliberately counterintuitive arguments, chat podcasts—so too were we early progenitors of the internet listicle.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 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
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
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
The runaway success of “Squid Game” was definitive proof that audiences are looking for the spark of originality in familiar formatting, and that language is no barrier when it comes to streaming entertainment.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024
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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