formal style
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Was this wardrobe change a symbolic gesture - Burnham signalling that with his move from Greater Manchester mayor to prime minister he would be adopting a more formal style in the job?
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Amid Rosalía’s impassioned delivery in both Spanish and Japanese, ghostly processed vocals from rapper Dougie F hover in the air, a striking contrast to her formal style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
If your instructor requires a formal style for the assignment, the language should be objective and in third- person point of view.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
That meant never sticking to a single, formal style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2019
Using a formal style when an informal style is called for results in prose that seems stuffy, pompous, affected, haughty.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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