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[fawr-mat] / ˈfɔr mæt /




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The 28-year-old McNulty has long been a top American, especially in the race-against-the-clock format of the time trial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Every new format of art has the potential to make something good.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

There are 144 teams scheduled for the fourth annual event that will be played on fields at Dignity Health Sports Park in a format in which teams play games within a group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

A Harry Potter And The Cursed Child producer has said the rising cost of living made it "literally impossible" to retain the play's original format in two parts.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Like most books nowadays, it was only available in electronic format.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

OpenAI has introduced new ad formats, a self-serve platform, and a tool to track user purchase activity after clicking ads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

They switch formats to begin a white-ball series against Sri Lanka in Southampton on Tuesday, with Brendon McCullum back in charge and Kevin Pietersen as part of the coaching staff.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

This year her department has a slate of 44 new and returning scripted series from the U.S. and Canada, excluding stand-up, comedy formats and adult animation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

“Over time, successful formats could be expanded into a broader lifestyle content strategy that supports both Walmart Connect and product sales,” the analysts said, referring to the name of Walmart’s retail media segment.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 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

"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

"They have become a very deliberate programmed and formatted team."

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 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

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

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

The runaway success of “Squid Game” was definitive proof that audiences are looking for the spark of originality in familiar formatting, and that language is no barrier when it comes to streaming entertainment.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

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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