informally

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Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, both members of the progressive group informally known as “the Squad.”

From Salon • May 24, 2026

He informally referred to them as "Tylosaurus thalassotyrannus," meaning "sea tyrant."

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

Altman in early 2025 asked former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to informally consult a team inside OpenAI working on making a social-media project similar to X, according to the Journal.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

“Every community is different,” said Pumphrey, who has started informally consulting counterparts on the development.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

If mathematics education communicated this playful aspect of the subject, formally at the elementary, secondary, or college level or informally via popular books, I don’t think innumeracy would be as widespread as it is.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos