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informality

[in-fawr-mal-i-tee] / ˌɪn fɔrˈmæl ɪ ti /


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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

Now he must decide whether younger, less experienced players require informality or more rigid structures as they learn to play the longer format of the game.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Sausalito has since transformed from hippie backwater to high-end suburb, but the club maintains an air of salty informality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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

Aureliano Segundo helped her back to bed and with the same informality with which he always treated her, he asked her the meaning of her farewell.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

These inequities or biases in the substantive laws have over time become routine through the legal formalities and discretionary informalities of the procedural law.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023

Field, now 97, said he and Locklin “shared certain informalities, that poetry shouldn’t be beyond human understanding and feelings.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021

In the weeks after this meal, Momofuku Nishi was reviewed by critics who were pleased with its food and its no-tipping policy but unhappy with its brutal acoustics and other informalities.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2016

In informal speech a lot of us — even English teachers — lapse into all sorts of informalities.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2012

They had either become lost, or, what is more probable, were returned to the officer that preferred them, on account of informalities.

From Four Years A Scout and Spy by E. C. Downs




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