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formalize

[fawr-muh-lahyz] / ˈfɔr məˌlaɪz /


VERB
stylize
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STRONG


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Intesa moved swiftly to formalize its offer, while BPM said its approached aimed to open discussions between the two banks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 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

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

The mechanism would help to formalize and identify what kinds of goods the United States should be exporting to and importing from China, he said.

From Barron's Mar. 22, 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

“This center formalizes and elevates the Tar Pits’ role as the world’s leading hub for Ice Age research,” Bettison-Varga said.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 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

Tuesday’s announcement essentially formalizes what has already been happening across the industry this year.

From Seattle Times Dec. 19, 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

Some companies are now offering a formalized version of these if-you-know-you-know chats.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 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

Their new science was organized around the virtues of a juge d’instruction: intellectual rigour, a set of formalized procedures, a quest for a complete proof, a confidence that one need only answer to other professionals.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The White House is considering a cybersecurity-focused executive order that could include formalizing a government oversight group to create standards for the most powerful AI models, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 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

That’s essentially formalizing what’s already happening this year at platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood.

From MarketWatch Feb. 14, 2026

Industrialism itself is perhaps but one manifestation of deep impulses in the life of nations; it is at once an intensification and a formalizing of life.

From The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G.E. Partridge




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