informal

Example Sentences

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A project to address the issues associated with the informal miners formalized much of Mutoshi’s work shortly after that visit, but those efforts were halted due to Covid.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The G7 -- an informal grouping of the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan -- helps shape policy debates in the world's wealthiest nations.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

He also started a controversial campaign to bulldoze illegal buildings – which helped ease traffic but also drew criticism from street vendors and residents in informal settlements.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Among your social circle, establish what West calls “an informal understanding” that you will check on each other if one of you needs long-term care.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

By the time of Anna’s death, the informal system of citizen policing had been displaced, but vestiges of it remained, especially in places that still seemed to exist on the periphery of geography and history.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann