informal
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He has repeatedly said he wants to continue in his role for decades and has created an informal organizational structure around him that eschews a conventional hierarchy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Regardless of a funny, informal nickname for this season’s Lakers, so far the starting unit has been great fun to watch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
As families scatter in search of work, she says, the informal support systems they once relied on become harder to rebuild.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The papal trip "will serve as a reminder that we're not as forgotten as we think," said the 29-year-old father of six, who works informal jobs.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
The Korean language has no fewer than six different levels of conversational address, depending on the relationship between the addressee and the addresser: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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