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Overall, this series may not have had the controversy of the Sandpaper series of 2018 but has been one of the best in recent memory in the longest format.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 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
At a later press conference, Baron Cohen -- as himself -- defended satire as the quintessential format for "shining a light on, maybe, subjects that we haven't really discussed as a society before."
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
It's then labelled so the AI knows what it is looking at and packaged in a format that can be used by clients.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
A good performer will be familiar with dozens of ragas and can improvise music — traditional classical music in India is improvised — using the accepted format for each raga.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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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
The credits for the album list sources including four-track and eight-track analog tapes, as well as multiple digital audio formats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Streaming, physical formats and licensing all posted gains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
In a 23-year international career, Anderson took 991 wickets across formats for England.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 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
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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
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
The letters poured in and Baxter set up a complicated card index system so children would get personal replies rather than a formatted letter.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
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
My house is filled to overflowing with clothes I will never wear, books I will never read and pocket-size external hard drives I will never get around to formatting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed the reported inaccuracies on Thursday, attributing them to "formatting issues" and saying that the report would be updated.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
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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