officialize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Zobrist explained: “As soon as you officialize, there is no way back.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2024
And in early September the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Guatemala’s high court, officialized Arévalo’s win.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
But those results must still be officialized by the country’s electoral court.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
We haven’t been officialized and putting the different things together I think we have as good an acquaintance with the social conditions as anybody would be likely to get in eight weeks.
From Letters from China and Japan by Dewey, John
One might say that the modern business man has officialized the ministering angel—perhaps some other forms of angel as well.
From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Le Gallienne, Richard
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 The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George
They filed for an injunction against officializing the results.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
Finland will then give Blinken its own final texts, officializing its membership.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
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