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• n  the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions)

• The upshot of all this is that the cherished goal of formalization is revealed as chimerical.
• The bill, submitted in October and currently in committee, would facilitate the formalization of recycler associations by granting them government recognition.
• No amount of formalization can overcome asininity.

• formalisation

News & Articles

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• RaceClean agreement with USADA becomes official
  USA Cycling announced today the official formalization of the RaceClean agreement with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
  July 10, 2013 - usacycling.org

Quotes

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• Mike Leavitt in Bloomberg
  The formalization of an influenza pandemic does have cascading consequences,said Michael Leavitt, former US health and human services secretary.
• Kenneth Starr in Christian News Wire (press release)
  Starr said of that contention, "to embrace what truly would be a revolution it is utterly without formalization in the courts jurisprudence."
• Freeman Dyson in Winnipeg Sun
  Godel's theorem of incompleteness profoundly shook the world of pure mathematicians when he demonstrated the ingenious proof, Dyson writes, "that in any formalization of mathematics including the rules of ordinary arithmetic there are meaningful...