formalize
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Boeing on Friday added that it was working to formalize a procedure with airlines that would allow pilots to restore automated flight guidance in case the glitch occurs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
The authors recommended that the county update its County Recovery Plan, including a disaster debris plan, as well as formalize a disaster recovery center coordinator position and create a one-stop web platform for post-disaster services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Their results, presented at a visualization science conference, formalize Schrödinger's model of color and show that these familiar color qualities are built into the structure of color perception itself.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026
The mechanism, as described by US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, would help formalize and identify what goods the United States should export to and import from China.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
He promised he’d formalize the relationship when the time was right.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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An agreement signed Friday formalizes seven tribes as co-managers of the Clear Lake watershed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
New research from the Boston Fed formalizes this intuition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Feb. 18, 2022: The Fed formalizes a new ethics policy, broadens the scope of what officials can't do and extends the rules to family members.
From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2023
To maintain the benefits of harvesting wild foods, we should take a One Health approach that formalizes the links between medicine and the environment.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023
It widens the scope of history, and more precisely formalizes its functions.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
From the moment the command center had been established at the Rose Bowl, “evacuation operations were not formalized within the incident organization,” according to the report, even as some on-the-ground believed it had been.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
But we did — around the Declaration of Independence and the belief in individual liberty and equality, as formalized in the Bill of Rights.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
On Monday, three of the six global soccer confederations formalized their coalition by signing an open letter that called for change at the top of FIFA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Elora Mukherjee: The metering policy was first implemented by DHS in 2016 and then it was formalized into written guidance in 2018.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
Internal conflict resolution within states has become increasingly formalized by laws, a judiciary, and police.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Abreu lobbied to make El Sistema part of the Venezuelan government, formalizing music education as a human right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Anthropic is formalizing its Claude Partner Network—a program for third-party sellers of its AI products—in a move that executives say will help it demonstrate business-readiness as it inches closer to an initial public offering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
An executive order could include formalizing a government oversight group to create standards for the most powerful AI models, such as Anthropic’s Mythos, people familiar with the discussions said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
“It’s more complicated now because China has moved toward formalizing these rules. The threat is omnipresent and it’s sometimes used in unforeseen ways.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
"You can never have justice without formalizing and shaping the dispute," says the lawyer.
From The Man in Court by Frederic DeWitt Wells
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The Classical Period, c. 600 BCE to c. 600 CE
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The Postclassical Period, c. 600 CE to c. 1450
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