format
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Broadcasters have ramped up experiments with format, style and tone - Disney+ even had a dog on set during their coverage - but perhaps unsurprisingly, not every idea proves to be successful.
From BBC β Oct. 16, 2026
The format itself is less appealing to many younger viewers, who prefer to watch clips of performances, acceptance speeches and red carpet walks on their phone rather than sit through a three-hour ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 12, 2026
The Games’ festive, in-person format is designed to tap in to that sociability, Stewart said.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 9, 2026
Slate was an early adopter of the listicle, that now-familiar internet format.
From Slate β Oct. 9, 2026
This was the legacy of Sesame Street: If you paid careful attention to the structure and format of your material, you could dramatically enhance stickiness.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Meta introduced ad formats that echo TV’s strengths, including an “Ads Super Burst” letting brands reserve time slots from three to 24 hours and, in some cases, secure category exclusivity.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 16, 2026
Restaurant chains are redesigning menus with new portion sizes and formats to attract price-conscious consumers.
From Barron's β Oct. 15, 2026
She made her India debut in 2009 at the age of 20 and has remained an integral part of the national side across formats ever since.
From BBC β Oct. 7, 2026
Much in the same way Slate was early to formats that would come to dominate digital publishing—explainers, deliberately counterintuitive arguments, chat podcasts—so too were we early progenitors of the internet listicle.
From Slate β Oct. 7, 2026
Because these tools are delivered over the Internet and written in standard Web formats, they are accessible to anyone who has an Internet connection and are easily interoperable with any business.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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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 β Jun. 15, 2026
After leaving ESPN, Bayless joined Fox Sports, where he co-hosted similarly formatted show “Undisputed” — for much of the time with co-host Shannon Sharpe — from 2016- to 2024.
From Los Angeles Times β May 4, 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 β Apr. 20, 2026
Kaufman Lynn, a Florida-based construction firm, built an agent using Procore’s technology that pulls data from nearly a dozen different tools and automatically creates a formatted monthly progress report.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 27, 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
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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 β Jul. 21, 2026
Some journals are experimenting with artificial intelligence to screen submissions or flag common problems, like issues with document formatting.
From Slate β 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 β 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 β 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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