formalize
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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
Local officials are hopeful the money can help prevent future upticks in land movement and, ideally, formalize a new pathway for additional federal funding to address the city’s ongoing hazards and worsening budget crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
A cybersecurity-focused executive order is being considered to formalize an oversight group creating standards for the most powerful AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
They encouraged him to formalize his camp by making it a Safe Outdoor Space, the very program he’d had a hand in creating barely two years prior.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
He promised he’d formalize the relationship when the time was right.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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New research from the Boston Fed formalizes this intuition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Olson says this new role formalizes the unofficial one she had shadowing her dad, Martin Olson, who wrote for the series during its original run.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
By eliminating the so-called year-in-residence for transfers, the council’s recommendation formalizes academic eligibility requirements, including progression toward a degree.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
To maintain the benefits of harvesting wild foods, we should take a One Health approach that formalizes the links between medicine and the environment.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023
It widens the scope of history, and more precisely formalizes its functions.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
Iran is trying to impose a similar formalized system on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
The tech titan formalized integration with Alphabet-owned Gemini, accelerating its AI capability without waiting for in-house models, and advanced its hybrid AI architecture, the analysts wrote Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 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
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
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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
“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
That’s essentially formalizing what’s already happening this year at platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 14, 2026
It was complemented by logical symbolism and logical calculus, very successful in formalizing dualism, and in eliminating logical models not fitting the dualistic structure.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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