informality

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"Resilient growth and stable unemployment figures should not distract us from the deeper reality: hundreds of millions of workers remain trapped in poverty, informality, and exclusion," ILO chief Gilbert Houngbo said in a statement.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

An active participant in proceedings, he at times asks questions of witnesses himself, and is known for occasional informality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

But informality and ambiguity remain a feature, not a bug, of China’s approach to coercive economic bargaining.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

A New York Times front page article covering President Eisenhower's visit in 1959 remarked on the "informality" that governed his overnight stay.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025

Aureliano Segundo helped her back to bed and with the same informality with which he always treated her, he asked her the meaning of her farewell.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez