formal

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We also learn how to ask for feedback, like in a meeting with a professor after an exam, and we learn norms like how formal we should be in-person versus over email.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Our assessment is quite detailed, it's maybe not written in the formal terms of the EIA but we will look at all of the aspects," he said.

From BBC

Buffett has said that lack of formal investment experience doesn’t matter, arguing that if a person can evaluate businesses as well as Abel can, he can pick stocks.

From Barron's

Days later, Horning’s attorneys sent both towns formal requests for all correspondence related to the buyout deal, and made clear the offer had come from sitting municipal leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal

Unlike formal declarations of war that historically required approval from Congress under Article I of the U.S.

From Salon