formalistic
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The argument advanced by the IRS is a formalistic one that results in an absurdity: Cryptocurrency wasn’t explicitly included in the list of items that meet the “readily valued property” exemption to the appraisal rules.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
It’s foundational and it’s formalistic, but it’s not going anywhere.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2024
As a filmmaker, Hogg is a seemingly incongruous blend of free-flowing and formalistic.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2021
“So your first order of preference would be the kind of formalistic line that I was just describing,” she said.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2020
There will thus be a formalistic series of errors: asceticism, sentimentalism, anarchism, mysticism; and a materialistic series: overindulgence, sordidness, bigotry or egoism, worldliness.
From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton
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