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[fawr-mat] / ˈfɔr mæt /




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

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

The company is developing a smaller store format to roll out in the U.S., helping it to compete with Dutch Bros and other fast-growing beverage chains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

A feature of England's success in this format has been captain Brook's heavy use of spin bowling.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Even more impressively, Rock has his own spin on the Hollywood industry movie, a well-worn format that’s fresh in the right hands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

I wanted to take pictures in the digital format, which could be uploaded, not developed.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

With Cox having made a breakout summer across formats and Banton likely to get more opportunities before Bethell returns, England are beginning to build promising depth.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

A development this scale would typically include apartment buildings and other multiunit housing formats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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

“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

Romeo and Juliet’s agonising predicament acts like wallpaper to nineteenth-century music: almost wherever you look it is lurking in the background, provoking decade-by-decade settings of many shapes, sizes and formats.

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

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

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

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

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

The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell




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