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  • verb Present participle of reformat.
  • noun The act by which something is reformatted.

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Examples

  • In fact, modern recovery technology is so through that even when you employ extreme measures such as reformatting the drive or removing the system partition, experts can still salvage the data.

    unknown title 2009

  • In fact, modern recovery technology is so through that even when you employ extreme measures such as reformatting the drive or removing the system partition, experts can still salvage the data.

    unknown title 2009

  • (like a purple "reformatting" Megatron gun), along with a clear version of his trailer.

    Transformers News 2010

  • (like a purple "reformatting" Megatron gun), along with a clear version of his trailer.

    TFormers.com 2010

  • I have an advantage in that sense, in that I have always identified as female and that would certainly make a decision about undergoing that reformatting a relatively easy one.

    Neil Gaiman – ‘Changes’ 2009

  • The BBC has done an excellent job in reformatting its "live page" to include a permanent summary of the latest developments, and an easy link to the latest version of the conventionally written news story.

    How live blogging has transformed journalism 2011

  • That reformatting timetable is within an hour or two of what Millhouse estimates the time of death.

    Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011

  • Men and women in the prime of their professional lives, who may have been responsible for the lives of scores or hundreds of troops, or millions of dollars in assistance, or engaging in reconciling warring tribes, they may find themselves in a cube all day, reformatting PowerPoint slides, preparing quarterly training briefs, or doing an ever expanding array of clerical duties.

    Gates Tells US Army to Take New Approach 2011

  • I have a little bit more manuscript reformatting to do before I print the whole thing out for the first time and being the job of editing, proofing and revising.

    State of Play : Bev Vincent 2009

  • I spent part of last night reformatting the manuscript since, for some odd reason, I started out writing it single spaced with an extra blank line between paragraphs.

    Fate decided for me : Bev Vincent 2009

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