How to Use JPEG in a Sentence
JPEG
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Photos can be captured in JPEG and RAW formats.
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James Abbott,
Space.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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Now Windows users have been issued another warning about a threat hiding in plain sight that weaponizes JPEG image files to attack.
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Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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By the time anyone noticed its similarity to JPEG compression, the format was ubiquitous.
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IEEE Spectrum,
17 June 2025
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The software supports the JPEG XL format, which combines ultrahigh resolutions with reduced file sizes.
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Michael Muchmore,
PC Magazine,
13 Mar. 2026
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Huffman coding, while still used today in the MPEG-2 compression format and a lossless form of JPEG, has its drawbacks.
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IEEE Spectrum,
21 Apr. 2021
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For more than 30 years, JPEG has made high-quality, high-resolution photography accessible in operating systems far and wide.
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IEEE Spectrum,
17 June 2025
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As the book notes, Mitchell and Pennebaker were given IBM’s support to follow through this research and work with the JPEG committee, and that support led them to develop many of the JPEG format’s foundational patents.
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IEEE Spectrum,
17 June 2025
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Despite not appearing together right away—the JPEG first appeared in Netscape in 1994, two years after the image standard was officially published—the JPEG and Web browser fit together naturally.
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IEEE Spectrum,
17 June 2025
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Meanwhile, the formats AVIF and HEIC, each developed by standards bodies, have largely outpaced both JPEG and JPEG 2000.
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IEEE Spectrum,
17 June 2025
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