How to Use machine-readable in a Sentence
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Whereas the terms of service may be legally enforceable but are not machine-readable.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2024
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Build machine-readable product data.
—Aviv Shamny, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
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Those two perspectives have to converge somewhere formal, maintained and machine-readable.
—Emma McGrattan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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Structured, machine-readable data matters more than keyword stuffing.
—Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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This is where the concept of the intent passport emerges—a structured, machine-readable declaration of purpose and boundaries.
—Hope Frank, Forbes.com, 5 Feb. 2026
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Make loyalty value machine-readable.
—Atul Sabharwal, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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Each of these shifts depend on market data that is reliable, licensed and machine-readable in ways legacy infrastructure was not built to deliver.
—Mike Cahill, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
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These commands tell a computer to navigate a file system, add or update text in source files, and, if needed, compile human-readable code into machine-readable bits.
—Cal Newport, New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2025
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Add structured context files at the pillar and page level to give AI systems a richer, machine-readable understanding.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
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It will be built by transforming existing visual knowledge into machine-readable representations of space.
—Alexandre De Vigan, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026
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Product catalogs need to be portable and machine-readable so an AI agent can resolve a SKU in seconds.
—Faustino Júnior, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
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The mandate requires machine-readable, structured product data from producers and importers across major consumer categories.
—Michael Quoc, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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Lawmakers will also vote on the requirement for ISPs to read the label in full to consumers over the phone and to make all labels available in machine-readable format.
—PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2025
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As audiences move from browsing links to asking direct questions, authority is no longer earned through keywords or page rank alone, but through clarity and machine-readable structure that AI systems can rely on.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
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Traditionally, mathematicians have had to translate their theorems and proofs into this machine-readable format by hand, a laborious process known as formalization.
—Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026
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Second, why should public equity markets move to less frequent reporting at the very moment the rest of financial regulation is moving toward more timely, granular, machine-readable risk information?
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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Implement An 'Authenticity Shield' Shift from guessing games with AI detectors to machine-readable proof of origin.
—Uri Samet, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
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This responsive aspect of machine-readable images makes surveillance not only more pervasive but also more effective, enabling machine systems to extract value from human users at greater scale and with greater precision than previously possible.
—Louis Bury, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026
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If robotaxis are going to scale, cities and states need a policy framework to support compliance, while creating a faster control layer built around machine-readable communication systems and workable enforcement to keep the industry’s hard lessons from staying siloed.
—David Roberts, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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That means making products and claims machine-readable and verifiable, ensuring visibility where agents compare and decide, building a real-time view of consumer intent, and closing the gap between brand promise and operational delivery.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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By implementing key reputation strategies, Ancira empowers brands and public figures alike to build consistent, machine-readable identities for effective and clear online strategies.
—Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
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Adeshina, who had been running his own information technology firm, oversaw the transition to machine-readable voter registration forms across 120,000 polling units, many in rural, hard-to-reach places.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2025
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Alongside it would exist a machine-readable version in which every fact, precedent, legal principle, jurisdictional limitation and judicial holding is explicitly tagged and categorized.
—Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2026
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ISPs will be allowed to provide links to price labels instead of displaying the full labels prominently on ordering pages and account portals, and will be allowed to stop making the price-label information available in machine-readable spreadsheets.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026
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Deloitte’s 2025 global supply chain survey found that fewer than half of suppliers in major apparel networks can provide structured, machine-readable compliance data beyond standard certificates.
—Muchaneta Ten Napel, Sourcing Journal, 27 Feb. 2026
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Compliance Readiness How many current suppliers can provide structured, machine-readable compliance data not just PDF certificates?
—Muchaneta Ten Napel, Sourcing Journal, 27 Feb. 2026
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For issuers that elect semiannual reporting and do not provide equivalent voluntary structured updates, a large share of the machine-readable XBRL data stream would disappear or arrive only half as often.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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Its syntactical restrictions meant the compiler (which translates the syntax to machine-readable instructions) is only 1 kilobyte, compared to C++ compilers, which were generally hundreds of kilobytes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Sep. 2025
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Contextual humanity becomes operational friction because it cannot easily be translated into machine-readable consistency.
—Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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Natural language processing engines are increasingly deployed to interpret SIG codes and free-form dosing instructions, converting them into machine-readable fields that downstream systems can evaluate.
—Ethan Stone june 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2026
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