format
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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
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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
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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
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
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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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