officialize

Example Sentences

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“It can only officialize discrimination,” she said, “and harm those fleeing conflicts, torture and those who simply want to unite with their families in the US.”

From Washington Post

Moon claimed that Kim’s stated wish to “denuclearise the Korean peninsula” meant that Pyongyang’s decision “to relinquish its nuclear programme has been officialized to a degree that not even those within North Korea can reverse”.

From The Guardian

While that was indeed the case, the dissolution was never officialized, and a law introduced in Brazil a year before Maria Angela’s birth stipulated that adoptions should be irreversible, and she ultimately prevailed in court.

From Forbes

They’ll be doing what most movie studios have yet failed to do, which is to officialize and galvanize a massive fan base into a single location, and then service their wildest dreams.

From Forbes

The suffix -ISM- was officialized in 1914 with the rather wide meaning given it by international usage in most European languages: system, doctrine, school of thought, theory, party.

From Project Gutenberg