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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

He promised he’d formalize the relationship when the time was right.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

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

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

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

Critics of the plan want these pledges in writing, and McHugh said they are currently being formalized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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

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

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

Of note, China has been formalizing a retaliatory option.

From Barron's ● May 12, 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

Dangers of formalizing methods of instruction In all of the above discussion it should be clearly remembered that no single plan or no one particular method has the final word or ever will have.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper