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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

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

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

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

The announcement formalizes conversations about when Biden will make his first trip as president to the United States’ northern neighbor.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 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

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

The holiday was formalized through an order issued by prominent Civil War general John Alexander Logan External link in 1868.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

They wanted the audition process to be formalized.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

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