Highly formalized plays like `Waiting for Godot'.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object), : to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.    From Dictionary.com. 

Worse, they're flat-out lying about what it is that Darwin formalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin "Replaced God?"] Reference

This is as common as dirt in the blogosphere and the big wide world, but it's a kind of formalized, group-oriented insanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Open thread 134] Reference

This is true, but they have never relied on the Bloc on any kind of formalized basis, as the Liberals and NDP seem set to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian opposition parties announce deal to oust Conservatives from power] Reference

Even while not formalized, that is the guideline under which we have operated. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [ESPN.com] Reference

By early 2010, Rockwood "formalized" a list of some 15 specific targets, which may have included US soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Watch] Reference

Do you think these media outlets have some kind of formalized agreement about which on is going to put out the weekly push-poll?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Bank Rossii needs to stress test small and medium-sized lenders and plans for recapitalizing banks must be "formalized," it said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference

"If you had some kind of formalized lending requirement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bailout vexes small banks] Reference

I mean, has it almost become a formalized process?.    From Wordnik.com.  [She And Him's Breezy Pop Sensibility] Reference

Ireland; the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalized a partition of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Currently there's no formalized way in which these deals are made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoning Changes for Comptroller] Reference

Last week he formalized the idea in a letter to the Academic Council.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sat Showdown] Reference

As development continued these schemes became deeper and more formalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road To (Intellectual) Serfdom] Reference

It's become more and more of a big business thing, more formalized every year.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2006] Reference

A: No, the-officers could not recall any formalized training before deployment.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Isenberg: The GAO Transcripts, Part 20: When PSC Cause "Mission Creep"] Reference

I suppose deep down inside I felt that the relationship did have to be formalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2005] Reference

This process will need to be formalized, requiring reform of the structures of the EU.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future of the EU Is Up for Grabs] Reference

She hasn't formalized an application process, but she says she won't be testing the merchandise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betting on the Studs] Reference

From there children enter the classroom, a more formalized, larger, and more dynamic environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting real about social, emotional learning] Reference

She wants this to be formalized in some way so that she knows she will always have a relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2007] Reference

A huge female figure rests on conventionalized rocks, and a formalized tree partially supports her.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Conniff: Military-Industrial Complex @ 50] Reference

SWEENEY (on camera): A relationship which began 35 years ago will be formalized at a civil ceremony April.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2005] Reference

Following the fateful Oct. 2 meeting, there was another NSC meeting on Oct. 5 that formalized the decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was Vietnam Jfk's War?] Reference

Eventually Banning joined the group, from the ranch, and under his guidance the study-system was formalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Crowded Earth] Reference

After two decades of fighting, the government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam formalized a cease-fire in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

And not crushing the insurgency in Fallujah may have accelerated, even formalized, the disintegration of Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [A LETHAL IDEA STILL LIVES] Reference

ABC's top boss, Robert A. Iger, said the moves formalized "" the long-term plan for succession '' at ABC News.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's Still Plenty Of Roone At The Top] Reference

And that is that an agreement between any two parties will ultimately be guaranteed and formalized by all the six parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2008] Reference

Debian is so committed to free software that we thought it would be useful if it was formalized in a document of some sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

Kenneth Arrow formalized this insight about information economics,58 and it profoundly shapes intellectual property policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalized a partition of Ireland; six northern Irish counties remained part of the United Kingdom as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

The project — formalized as a new federal office in the financial-regulation act — is called the Office of Financial Research.    From Wordnik.com.  [How a Street Watchdog Got Its Bite] Reference

Mr. Netanyahu said he would like to meet with Mr. Abbas every two weeks to underpin the process, though that hasn't been formalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rivals in Middle East Fast-Track Talks] Reference

This arrangement was formalized when AJS took a 30% stake in Dow's, while the Warres in return took shares in their old family firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grapes Without Wrath] Reference

British, formalized the annual subsidies the country received, and defined India's responsibilities in defense and foreign relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

In 2004, the regime formalized an arrangement whereby private "farmers markets" were allowed to begin selling a wider range of goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

So we just formalized it, like people who have been living together for ages and then decide to get married for tax reasons or something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legendary Robyn Hitchcock Plays for the 'BPP'] Reference