formal
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Perhaps a 10th album, released 20 years later, will be self-titled and need no formal introduction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan is also expected to attend, though his country is not a formal member.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
A recent survey found that 91% of security professionals in the U.S. and Europe have no formal road map in place to protect against the threat of quantum computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
A judge ordered him detained pending extradition proceedings, prompting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to send Texas Gov. Greg Abbott a formal request for Castro’s extradition.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
Washington was an inherently stiff and formal man who cultivated aloofness and possessed distancing mechanisms second to none.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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