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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

It was an attempt to formalize the notion that some ideas are ahead of their time, and to get a sense of how often they occur and how long they typically lie fallow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The authors recommended that the county update its County Recovery Plan, including a disaster debris plan, as well as formalize a disaster recovery center coordinator position and create a one-stop web platform for post-disaster services.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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

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

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

“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

By eliminating the so-called year-in-residence for transfers, the council’s recommendation formalizes academic eligibility requirements, including progression toward a degree.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

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

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

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

“But he never formalized it as a therapy treatment. Nobody has. Now it’s taking off, it’s definitely rising.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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

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

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

An executive order could include formalizing a government oversight group to create standards for the most powerful AI models, such as Anthropic’s Mythos, people familiar with the discussions said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 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