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formalize

[fawr-muh-lahyz] / ˈfɔr məˌlaɪz /


VERB
stylize
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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The time may have arrived, judging at least from your letter, to formalize the roles family members and employees have in his life, and that comes with accountability.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

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

Lawmakers should also formalize ESF oversight, putting guardrails around the Treasury’s use of the fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

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

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

An agreement signed Friday formalizes seven tribes as co-managers of the Clear Lake watershed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

New research from the Boston Fed formalizes this intuition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

To maintain the benefits of harvesting wild foods, we should take a One Health approach that formalizes the links between medicine and the environment.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023

It widens the scope of history, and more precisely formalizes its functions.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various

There may have been growing competition over resources, control of movement, and more formalized leadership structures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

County formalized a local brigade program — which has existed in various forms as guerrilla groups of good Samaritans for decades — in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

From the moment the command center had been established at the Rose Bowl, “evacuation operations were not formalized within the incident organization,” according to the report, even as some on-the-ground believed it had been.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

But we did — around the Declaration of Independence and the belief in individual liberty and equality, as formalized in the Bill of Rights.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Convinced of the essential uselessness of formalized education, he had retreated from civilization.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

But some Israeli defense analysts have also proposed formalizing and expanding Mahal to recruit more volunteers like Shneider.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

The danger here is in formalizing the extortion into a new, worse status quo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

Of note, China has been formalizing a retaliatory option.

From Barron's ● May 12, 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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