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format

[fawr-mat] / ˈfɔr mæt /




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So Fifa felt it had to make a tweak due to the expanded format for 2026.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

But with the expanded field, it was a round-of-32 game against a Bosnia-Herzegovina team that finished third in its group and likely would not have qualified for the tournament under the old format.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2026

A similar approach happens at Wimbledon, and in the new Champions League format, at which seeds are kept apart in pairs.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Open-air is the traditional format, which accounts for half the league today, dropping to about a third by 2030.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Explain a moment that changed your worldview, written in recipe format.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

In 2020, she became the first England player, either in men's or women's cricket, to score an international century in all three formats.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Titmouse’s work, in development by a number of directors with contrasting tones, will be shown on a variety of formats, ranging from cinema screens to full-room projections.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

Beaumont is one of only two English women, alongside former captain Heather Knight, to score an international century in all three formats.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

Mid-sized formats, meanwhile, are getting the cold shoulder, Rennie said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 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

"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

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

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

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

But they demand long hours—sometimes over 100-hour weeks—spent doing basic tasks, like formatting slide decks or filling in spreadsheets.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

It automates a series of steps within the spreadsheet, so that those instructions can be done with one click - for example formatting the data in a particular style or making calculations.

From BBC Jan. 8, 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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