How to Use pro forma in a Sentence

pro forma

adjective
Definition of pro formanext
  • The meeting was strictly pro forma, since the decision had already been made.
  • But none have risen above the $10 pro forma share price used by SPACs.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The Senate will meet next in pro forma session on Jan. 19.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Fall in love with your pro forma and tighten up your business plan.
    — Daniel Kodsi, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • That’s the next time the House, which is on break for the holidays, is scheduled to meet for a routine pro forma session.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The Senate adjourned today in a pro forma and will gavel back in on April 16.
    — Lauren Peller, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The 14th Five-Year Plan will get a pro forma review by the congress and be approved at the closing session on 11 March.
    — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The departure from the Big Ten was given pro forma approval in May.
    — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The former was pro forma; the latter sounds like someone who has spent a lot of time trying to make peace with what’s happened.
    — Cameron Goodnight, baltimoresun.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The Senate is scheduled for a pro forma session Monday, but no vote has been set.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2020
  • On Thursday, Wayfair reported a net loss of $2.20 a share for the first quarter, though its pro forma...
    — Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 2 May 2019
  • Our armed guard peeled off at the first desert rest stop, his presence seem ingly largely pro forma.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 Sep. 2014
  • How did pro forma sports programming come to have that kind of cultural pull?
    — Elena Bergeron, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Passage of the measure in the House next month is considered pro forma, as is Mr. Biden’s signature.
    — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2021
  • On Tuesday, the fight came to the House chamber for the first time as members prepared to take what are typically pro forma votes on rules.
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2023
  • As with other trailer bills, it was hustled through the Assembly on a pro forma floor vote a few weeks later and then sat in the Senate for the next four months.
    — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • That's the most ballots cast in this normally pro forma election since before the Civil War.
    — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The Senate could pass the spending package this afternoon in a pro forma session.
    — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Instead of even any pro forma farewell, even shaking of hands, O'Reilly takes a deep breath and heads to a window overlooking the East River as the reporters are shown both his back and the door.
    — James Warren, The Hive, 24 Oct. 2017
  • In turn, the gulf monarchs have made only pro forma protests against Mr. Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, 13 June 2018
  • But finally the plotting is so leaden and the fire fights so pro forma that not even the sight of the three Shafts in action can keep this film from sinking under its own weight.
    — Kenneth Turan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2019
  • So, too, should companies that mashed out pro forma statements in support of Black Lives Matter last year.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Attempting to pay a coach in order to lose games, though, could be seen as something far different than the pro forma tanking.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • What looked like a pro forma celebrity breakup, however, was anything but.
    — Suzy Expositostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The plan assigned a pro forma value for FinAccel of $2.5 billion.
    — Ardian Wibisono, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2022
  • In that year, both parties held pro forma primaries with strong frontrunners.
    — David Weigel, Washington Post, 23 May 2018
  • Assuming bad faith and even outright willful deception on the part of Trump and his party is pro forma now.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Anyway, there’s a lot of symbolism in there, not to mention a lot of pro forma, Joseph Campbellian hero’s-journey stuff.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2021
  • All this might have seemed relatively pro forma in the hands of less skilled animators.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 30 Nov. 2017
  • As the company gets more attention, more people engage, which ultimately drives more trading—until the hype is over and the stock plummets back to its pro forma state.
    — Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

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