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formalized

  • past participle
    of formalize.
    formalize
    verb (used with object)
    to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance.
  • past tense form
    of formalize.
    formalize
    verb (used with object)
    to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance.

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He soon formalized the declaration of war and the war’s objectives in a meeting with the security cabinet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

From the moment the command center had been established at the Rose Bowl, “evacuation operations were not formalized within the incident organization,” according to the report, even as some on-the-ground believed it had been.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

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

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