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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

The mechanism, as described by US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, would help formalize and identify what goods the United States should export to and import from China.

From Barron's ● May 8, 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

“If we’re committed,” I said, as evenly as I could muster, “why wouldn’t we formalize that commitment? What part of your dignity would be sacrificed by that?”

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

New research from the Boston Fed formalizes this intuition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

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

But the $120,000 purchase formalizes and guarantees future access.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

Feb. 18, 2022: The Fed formalizes a new ethics policy, broadens the scope of what officials can't do and extends the rules to family members.

From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 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

Critics of the plan want these pledges in writing, and McHugh said they are currently being formalized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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

More than any other strategist, Marshall has formalized and advanced Wall Street’s understanding of how options let investors better navigate the stock market by managing risk and maximizing return.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Their new science was organized around the virtues of a juge d’instruction: intellectual rigour, a set of formalized procedures, a quest for a complete proof, a confidence that one need only answer to other professionals.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

The White House is considering a cybersecurity-focused executive order that could include formalizing a government oversight group to create standards for the most powerful AI models, such as Mythos, people familiar with the discussions said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

The post pointed to recent AI-chip export agreements reached in the Middle East as an example and said current discussions are aimed at formalizing that approach.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

Industrialism itself is perhaps but one manifestation of deep impulses in the life of nations; it is at once an intensification and a formalizing of life.

From The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G.E. Partridge