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[fawrm] / fɔrm /




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He says he is eligible to be transferred from prison to an alternative form of confinement under the First Step Act, the landmark 2018 criminal justice reform law.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

Recruiting con jobs have been around for years in some form.

From MarketWatch Sep. 5, 2026

She added that she found the form long and difficult to fill in and the telephone call as "really cold".

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Materials designed to curve and then hold that form are often produced by molding polymers and carefully controlling residual stresses inside them.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

He pushed Mr. MacPherson’s request form at her.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

As freezing begins and the ice forms from outside in, various impurities in the water get pushed towards the centre.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

Paxton declined to be interviewed and did not answer detailed questions about how he filled out the disclosure forms.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

The findings suggest that increasing dietary plasmalogens may help protect synapses from some forms of age-related deterioration.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

What we call the mind is therefore not purely rational but an integration of three different forms of mental process: perception, feeling and reflection—the last of which includes language.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Looking at them indirectly, I could almost mistake their forms as human.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Though they were part of a feminist group recently formed at their all-girls Catholic high school, some were not quite sure who Gloria was, exactly.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

Because Mars lacks this process, scientists have often assumed that its crust formed in a much simpler way.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

John Pickles formed Jive Bunny in Rotherham in 1989 and the act went on to have three UK number ones with Swing The Mood, That's What I Like and Let's Party.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Across cultures and time, four major institutions have formed young men: family, religion, work and war.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Knots formed in his stomach in anticipation of finding the third key.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Lupoi was the missing piece alongside Rivera and Chancellor Rich Lyons, forming a trio of Berkeley graduates who understand the importance of elevating the university’s profile with a contending football program.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

As Gioia put it, of the casting stage of forming the letters: “That has been Shakespeare. That has been Zora Neale Hurston. It’s a beautiful cyclical process.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

The country was always a nation of immigrants and, according to Wood, a widespread concern at the time was that forming a national identity could be difficult.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

However, they contain relatively little indigo light, which appears to activate nonvisual opsins involved in biological processes beyond forming images.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

In these extreme conditions, atoms of hydrogen, the lightest element, smash together and combine, forming a new element, helium.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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