'formal contexts' is correct and usable in written English.
Formal contexts are generally used in professional or academic writing, such as business documents, essays and reports. For example, "The language used in this report should be appropriate for formal contexts."
For formal contexts, there is the long-lined kind that requires schooling and practice to master.
The female equivalent of "sir", a woman of high rank, is still used in formal contexts as a mode of address.
already finds the singular they acceptable "even in literary and formal contexts," but the Usage Panel of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed).
Until sounds more natural as the first word of a sentence and before a verb ("Until you come back to me"); till works well in less formal contexts and before a noun ("till lunchtime").
Ayahuasca is also consumed within a variety of more or less formal contexts such as new religious movements, enlightenment retreats, neo-shamanic workshops, self-discovery weekends and eco-lodges specialising in spiritual tourism.
People outside of indigenous groups may come across ayahuasca through a variety of more or less formal contexts such as new religious movements, enlightenment retreats, neo-shamanic workshops, self-discovery weekends and eco-lodges specialising in spiritual tourism.
But used in a formal context it looks ridiculous.
Nor did he disappear from the public gaze in a more formal context.
The trick, in a formal context, is to use it effectively.
But, he said, "the issues were fairly complex and technical and conducive to work in the formal context".
Wasn't it sad that men and women couldn't get to know one another outside of the formal context set up solely to lead people to marriage?
