reformat
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“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
Before VNTANA's integration with Meta, advertisers would need to reformat 3D files to be compatible with Meta's ad systems.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2022
“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
Ancient Greek tragedy is reformatted with the musical and storytelling rhythms of the Black Pentecostal church to bring us closer to the spirit of Sophocles’ art than the majority of academic revivals ever have.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
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
In that case, we added a row of asterisks because future reformatting or conversion could cause confusion about the scene break that was explicitly signalled by the blank lines on paper.
From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim
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