[MAINT] Remove uses of `format` in strings #6152

Job	Run time
build_linux (3.11)	4m 58s
build_windows (3.10)	10m 46s
build_linux (3.10)	5m 56s
build_linux (3.12)	5m 41s
build_linux (3.13)	5m 53s
build_windows (3.12)	11m 50s
build_windows (3.13)	11m 10s
build_linux (3.14)	5m 39s
build_windows (3.11)	11m 48s
build_windows (3.14)	10m 8s
test_examples_linux (3.11, false, ubuntu-22.04)	10m 0s
test_linux (3.10, false, ubuntu-22.04)	3m 42s
test_linux (3.14, false, ubuntu-22.04)	3m 8s
test_linux (3.13, false, ubuntu-22.04)	9m 4s
test_linux (3.12, false, ubuntu-22.04)	3m 7s
test_linux (3.11, false, ubuntu-22.04)	3m 9s
test_windows (3.11, false, windows-latest)	3m 57s
test_windows (3.13, false, windows-latest)	4m 47s
test_windows (3.14, false, windows-latest)	4m 49s
test_windows (3.10, false, windows-latest)	3m 58s
test_windows (3.12, false, windows-latest)	4m 2s
upload_linux	-1s
upload_windows	0s
Clean up anaconda packages	0s
	2h 17m 31s

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