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Formalizing

Formalize \Form"al*ize\ (f[^o]rm"al*[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Formalized (f[^o]rm"al*[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Formalizing (f[^o]rm"al*[imac]`z[i^]ng).]

  1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. [R.]

  2. To render formal.

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formalizing

vb. (present participle of formalize English)

Usage examples of "formalizing".

It was not so much that there were so many border uprisings at that time as that Shrewd seemed intent on formalizing his boundaries with all his neighbors.

Already, there was talk at significant hive levels of formalizing a much closer alliance with the humans.

There was talk of formalizing it as the capital of the incipient colony.

Realizing that your kind has lived among us in harmony and without friction for a studied length of time should, our psychologists tell us, greatly facilitate the formalizing of relations.

He and Carol had often discussed having a few, as they often had discussed formalizing their relationship with marriage, but they had continually put off both projects… and then, one day, Carol was dead.

The Divine One was simply formalizing what she already knew to be true.

Obsessed with formalizing these effects, comparing different schedules of reinforcement, the behaviourist journals became full of trivial phenomenology, mere catalogues of seemingly objective facts about the behaviour of rats in boxes as tidily classified as the stamps in a fanatic's collection, but as indifferent to either the biology or to the broader behavioural range of the animals they were ostensibly studying as were the pavlovians.

Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early '50s, they met several times before taking the hint and formalizing the team, in 1979.