format
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China is willing to discuss Ukraine and other major issues in that format, the official said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Last week, producers announced classic Neighbours storylines would be repackaged as super-short vertical episodes, one of the latest signs the format is moving into the mainstream.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
But its collapse signalled the "death knell" for the department store format, said Jana Bowden, who teaches marketing at Macquarie University's Business School.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Single-narrator audiobooks remain the preferred format overall, but for Maas fans that’s hardly the point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Biber’s ‘Guardian Angel’ is an especially interesting piece because it is constructed in a format known as a ‘Passacaglia’, which divided moral opinion in the seventeenth century but continues to influence music today.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Jones, who turned 80 on Monday, won 12 grands prix in his career and raced competitively in other formats until 2002.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Google has been experimenting with different ad formats within AI surfaces, Flax told MarketWatch, and he believes the company will be able to effectively monetize those conversational queries in the long term.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
Streaming, physical formats and licensing all posted gains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
This was an experience that would repeat itself in different formats forever all across the United States, Canada, and multiple European countries, and still happens now if you want that to be your experience.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
Familiar examples include standardized weights and measures, electrical voltages and cables, computer file formats, and paper currency.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
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
His style was laid back, conversational and a contrast to the highly formatted slick patter of many other DJs.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
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
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
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
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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