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reformat

American  
[ree-fawr-mat] / riˈfɔr mæt /

verb (used with object)

reformatted, reformatting
  1. to format again or in a new or different way.


noun

  • reformats
    plural
  1. the act or result of formatting again or in a new or different way.

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USA Today is testing different ways to reformat its website content for an AI bot audience to attract AI content licensing deals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

“We were able to reformat the program without sacrificing impact.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024

"So we've made the decision to reformat Newsnight as a 30 minute late-night news-making debate, discussion and interview programme," she continued.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023

And they may need to reformat data to fit a repository’s standards.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 24, 2023

“This is good. Quite detailed. Why don’t you let me hang on to this and reformat it into something more acceptable?”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

A smart geek, Russel Neiss, took him at his word and created a bot, @RealPressSecBot, which reads every one of his tweets and reformats them as official White House statements.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2019

“It begins when someone scoops up troves of personal information that are available cheaply online— old loan applications, long-expired obligations, data from hacked accounts — and reformats it to look like a list of debts.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2017

So someone on the Internet has created a new bot that reformats Trump tweets to look like official White House press releases:

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017

In tense moments, explains the clinical psychologist Rod Martin… joking actually reformats your perception of a stressor.

From Time ● Jul. 8, 2015

I reformatted the challenge, and it caught its error the second time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

No matter how advanced they are, they don’t do much to make the sound clearer — just louder and slightly reformatted.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024

Under this reformatted question, “Hispanic or Latino” and “Middle Eastern or North African” will be listed as options.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

While most electronic records do not need to be printed to be archived, they have to be reformatted, sorted and preserved among troves of government data — a process that can take months to complete.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

Each episode has been reformatted to promote the SmartMart brand.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

But he lacks coherence in pursuit of the big aims he and his interpreters keep talking about, from U.S. reindustrialization to reformatting U.S. security for a multipolar era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

Conservative lawyer George Conway reacted by reformatting Trump's request into a knock-knock joke.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2023

What we are doing is fundamentally reformatting the network.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2023

The chain said it was both opening new locations and reformatting existing stores to tap into the growing demand for low-cost goods.

From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2022

The goal was to make scanning as affordable and acceptable as photocopying and microfilming for preservation reformatting.

From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress

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