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formalize

[fawr-muh-lahyz] / ˈfɔr məˌlaɪz /


VERB
stylize
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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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

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

They formalize discussions around career planning to make sure employees are getting support, feedback and guidance.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 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

Thursday’s agreement formalizes that position, and requires the Justice Department to return or destroy any records that provide personally identifying information moving forward.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 23, 2026

This shift largely formalizes what the Biden administration had already been doing.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 1, 2025

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

The new initiative, announced at the Bloomberg CityLab conference in Washington on Wednesday, formalizes a process that CityLab has used for years.

From Seattle Times Oct. 18, 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

More than any other strategist, Marshall has formalized and advanced Wall Street’s understanding of how options let investors better navigate the stock market by managing risk and maximizing return.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 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

They wanted the audition process to be formalized.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

Anthropic is formalizing its Claude Partner Network—a program for third-party sellers of its AI products—in a move that executives say will help it demonstrate business-readiness as it inches closer to an initial public offering.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 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 post pointed to recent AI-chip export agreements reached in the Middle East as an example and said current discussions are aimed at formalizing that approach.

From Barron's Mar. 6, 2026

"You can never have justice without formalizing and shaping the dispute," says the lawyer.

From The Man in Court by Frederic DeWitt Wells




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