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format

[fawr-mat] / ˈfɔr mæt /




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From the makers of the extended, lightly thrilling 12-team postseason format comes an unsolicited supersizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The updated format was developed by the NHC in 2024, and the findings were published in the American Meteorological Society journal Weather, Climate, and Society.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Indeed, it is a format that is growing in popularity across the world.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Whether the new format improves the development of English footballers will not be clear for a few years yet.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

He walked back to the sofa and thought about making a list, putting in a neat format the arguments for and against his mother still being alive. . ijtj .

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

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

Having succeeded Mithali Raj as T20 captain in 2016, Harmanpreet assumed charge across all formats in 2022 and went on to guide India to some of the greatest successes in its history.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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

Public subsidy allowed formats that had become financially unviable - such as the nineteenth-century symphony orchestra - to prosper somewhat artificially in the twentieth century, justified by the preservation of heritage.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

"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

Chris co-authored Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan’s memoir “How to Be a Man” and is the author of a memoir formatted as a pregnancy guide for men, “Rocking Fatherhood.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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

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

Voice writers repeat every word spoken in court along with a sequence of formatting commands to voice recognition software.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 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

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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