formality
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Havens and Elayyne started planning the wedding, waiting for what they thought would just be a formality: the signature of the governor of Washington state.
From Slate • May 2, 2026
Such missives resembled the way royal press officers would round up a day of engagements on a royal tour, except these were with language free of convention and formality.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Diversification isn’t a formality: Since no one knows the winners across the AI ecosystem, your AI exposure should be broad, rather than centered on one or two hotshots.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
There was a time when a certain level of written formality was expected of people in power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
Those who accept are assigned a guard who, as he leads the tourist along the iron walkway fronting the death cells, is likely to identify the condemned with what he must consider comic formality.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Vocabulary lists containing formality
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Shape Up: Form
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And Then There Were None
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