formalize
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But it would formalize the country’s control over what had been an open international waterway before the war, one that carried a fifth of the world’s traded oil and gas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 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
They encouraged him to formalize his camp by making it a Safe Outdoor Space, the very program he’d had a hand in creating barely two years prior.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
The mechanism would help to formalize and identify what kinds of goods the United States should be exporting to and importing from China, he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026
He promised he’d formalize the relationship when the time was right.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Thursday’s agreement formalizes that position, and requires the Justice Department to return or destroy any records that provide personally identifying information moving forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026
This shift largely formalizes what the Biden administration had already been doing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
While the executive order formalizes a parallel overlay of the federal government in the form of Musk's DOGE, it still does not clearly define its legal status.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025
The new initiative, announced at the Bloomberg CityLab conference in Washington on Wednesday, formalizes a process that CityLab has used for years.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
It widens the scope of history, and more precisely formalizes its functions.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
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
His appointment as premier, which will be formalized by King Charles at Buckingham Palace on Monday, marks the climax of a steep ascent for a politician who until last month wasn’t even a lawmaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Elora Mukherjee: The metering policy was first implemented by DHS in 2016 and then it was formalized into written guidance in 2018.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
The tech titan formalized integration with Alphabet-owned Gemini, accelerating its AI capability without waiting for in-house models, and advanced its hybrid AI architecture, the analysts wrote Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
He has a very formalized, intense way of talking, my dad.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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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
That streak may end this Wednesday as the Scott Bessent-led department is expected to update this language in its policy statement, formalizing the “preliminary” considerations for hikes mentioned in the previous announcement.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
And it just seemed like we were so clearly making a bunch of choices, specifically not to let profit be the motivation, that it started to seem very silly that we weren’t just formalizing this.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2026
That’s essentially formalizing what’s already happening this year at platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 14, 2026
Dangers of formalizing methods of instruction In all of the above discussion it should be clearly remembered that no single plan or no one particular method has the final word or ever will have.
From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper
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