noun
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the condition or quality of being informal
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an informal act
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Example Sentences
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There’s an informality built into the production, but it’s somewhat deceptive because the mercurial staging is extremely precise.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
"Resilient growth and stable unemployment figures should not distract us from the deeper reality: hundreds of millions of workers remain trapped in poverty, informality, and exclusion," ILO chief Gilbert Houngbo said in a statement.
From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026
But informality and ambiguity remain a feature, not a bug, of China’s approach to coercive economic bargaining.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
While sharing similar tenets like low-slung horizontality, natural materials and warm informality, some incorporate elements of Colonial or Spanish architecture, others take on a bit of Swiss Chalet.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025
Everyone, meanwhile, appears to be blending into a classless crowd, shedding the showiest kinds of high-status clothes in favor of a jeans-and-sweatsuit informality.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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