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But it would formalize the country’s control over what had been an open international waterway before the war, one that carried a fifth of the world’s traded oil and gas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Under Irish takeover rules, the two private-equity firms have until Wednesday to formalize the offer or they will be barred from making another approach for six months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Their results, presented at a visualization science conference, formalize Schrödinger's model of color and show that these familiar color qualities are built into the structure of color perception itself.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026

The mechanism, as described by US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, would help formalize and identify what goods the United States should export to and import from China.

From Barron's ● May 8, 2026

“If we’re committed,” I said, as evenly as I could muster, “why wouldn’t we formalize that commitment? What part of your dignity would be sacrificed by that?”

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

New research from the Boston Fed formalizes this intuition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

While the executive order formalizes a parallel overlay of the federal government in the form of Musk's DOGE, it still does not clearly define its legal status.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025

But the $120,000 purchase formalizes and guarantees future access.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

Feb. 18, 2022: The Fed formalizes a new ethics policy, broadens the scope of what officials can't do and extends the rules to family members.

From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2023

He who formalizes on everything is a fool, and a grave fool is perhaps more injurious than a light fool.—Cecil.

From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

The notion that motion pictures could make a record of real-world events was formalized with the advent of the newsreel, the creation of which is credited to the French studio Pathé in 1910.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Elora Mukherjee: The metering policy was first implemented by DHS in 2016 and then it was formalized into written guidance in 2018.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

Since the Waters center formalized the partnership in 2021, one other adult school has adopted the arrangement and a second will do so soon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

The holiday was formalized through an order issued by prominent Civil War general John Alexander Logan External link in 1868.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

Internal conflict resolution within states has become increasingly formalized by laws, a judiciary, and police.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Abreu lobbied to make El Sistema part of the Venezuelan government, formalizing music education as a human right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The White House is considering a cybersecurity-focused executive order that could include formalizing a government oversight group to create standards for the most powerful AI models, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

“It’s more complicated now because China has moved toward formalizing these rules. The threat is omnipresent and it’s sometimes used in unforeseen ways.”

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

And it just seemed like we were so clearly making a bunch of choices, specifically not to let profit be the motivation, that it started to seem very silly that we weren’t just formalizing this.

From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2026

The best results have been obtained not by formalizing scouting, but by supplementing and vitalizing the book work by the practical activities of the scout program.

From Educational Work of the Boy Scouts by Lorne W. (Lorne Webster) Barclay