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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

For the highly anticipated decision, the court sat in plenary formation, meaning that 11 judges took part instead of the usual five -- a format reserved for important cases.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Four conference championship games are going away as the new format takes hold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Explain a moment that changed your worldview, written in recipe format.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

“Individuals can negotiate the medium they use, although the formats lean in certain directions and nudge them to interact in particular ways,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 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

Across formats, Brook is only the second man to register a century in internationals T20s, a double hundred in ODIs and a triple century in Tests, following West Indies' great Chris Gayle.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

This has since been demonstrated a thousand times over, and much show business brain power has been dedicated to thinking up new ways to dress a handful of basic formats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The data transfer rate just isn’t good enough for the size of music files, even in compressed formats.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

"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

Spelling mistakes and formatting errors throughout the proclamations have made identifying exempted plants a guessing game.

From Salon ● May 10, 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

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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