Question

Specific term required. Working on a book about William Holman Hunt inspired the English student James H. Coombs to author an early analysis of systems described by this word. Brian Reid's Scribe language began a split between the procedural and descriptive types of this concept. This is the second word in the acronym of the format of a HTTPRequest object that is paired with asynchronous JavaScript to communicate with web servers. That format, in which data must adhere to a DTD to be considered valid and well-formed, has a name that prefaces this word with ■END■ (-5[1])

ANSWER: markup [accept markup languages; accept HyperText Markup Language; accept Extensible Markup Language; accept Markdown; prompt on HTML or XMLHttpRequest or .md by asking “What does that stand for?”] (The first sentence refers to the paper “Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing.”)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
OphirmnemonistsNJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess)95-5
Anson BernsJinAh and Jordan from Wikiquizboy's jitches (ft. DMA)9710
Albert ZhangParden the InterruptionNaocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse9710
Aseem KeyalbruhJJaryland12010
Ryan Rosenberg1.g4 Test MixtureLet's Fighting Love12610
Richard NiuThe Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuolaprotobowling for soup13110
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtSandmännchen im HelikopterchamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia13910
Sky HongNJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess)mnemonists14210

Summary

2024 ESPN @ Chicago03/23/2024Y6100%0%50%142.67
2024 ESPN @ Columbia03/23/2024Y7100%0%14%121.71
2024 ESPN @ Duke03/23/2024Y2100%50%0%123.00
2024 ESPN @ Brown04/06/2024Y3100%0%0%128.33
2024 ESPN @ Cambridge04/06/2024Y2100%0%0%118.50
2024 ESPN @ Online06/01/2024Y3100%0%0%131.33