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[fawr-mat] / ˈfɔr mæt /




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The other characteristic of Eurovision is the song format – no more than three minutes, no more than six people on stage, and no backing band, only taped music.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Others have suggested a format involving France, Germany, and Britain.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

Further modifications to the codex format revolutionized how people read.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

The film will be displayed in its original 16:9 format on the Cosm screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Although Dowland used ‘Flow, my tears’ as the basis for a set of purely instrumental pieces called Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares for strings and lute, songs remained, by and large, his format of choice.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

In 16 previous Rugby League World Cups, staged in varying formats, neither England nor Great Britain have ever finished outside the top four.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Streaming, physical formats and licensing all posted gains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

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

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

In a moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admits to feeling “like an editor who stayed up too late formatting the memo.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 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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