formulate
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Wendy’s also withdrew its outlook for the year, saying its new management needs time to fully assess the business opportunities and formulate a comprehensive turnaround plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
But the offer enables us to formulate a possible structure: that of an unequal relationship between two human worlds, perhaps even a durable social asymmetry between the Neanderthal and Sapiens groups.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
McLuhan’s theories about how different forms of media evolve almost help him formulate what would become “Saturday Night Live” many years earlier.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Faison: When the pandemic happened, Zach and I did a rewatch podcast of “Scrubs,” and that’s where all of this started to formulate again.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
There was no time for Frank to turn into an eagle and catch him; no time to formulate a rescue plan.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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The DH is, therefore, "unable to move forward on this matter whilst the UK Government formulates its position in response to the recommendations".
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
The typical comedy equation is tragedy plus time; “Diarra From Detroit” formulates an alternate calculation that joins crisis and unanswered questions.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2024
Not the official fundraising and administrative apparatus that runs conventions and formulates policy platforms, but the broad constellation of think tanks, nonprofits, academic experts, and journalists that collectively regulates the liberal intellectual atmosphere.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2024
Mr. Schumer is seeking to craft a comprehensive AI bill and has started talking with his House Republican counterparts as he formulates such a legislative package.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
“Who formulates the policies of these two companies?”
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated, external and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
"She formulated a philosophy of art she dubbed 'self-obliteration' based on simple motifs of obsessive repetition and proliferation," according to her website.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Aschenbrenner formulated the worldview behind his paper, called “Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead,” while he was still at OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Most commercial batteries use specially formulated liquid or solid electrolytes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
This would not have puzzled Duhem, who specifically formulated his thesis to address modern physics; he acknowledged that it did not apply, for example, to nineteenth-century biology.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Paris and Berlin want "to have a Franco-German roadmap on this issue by September", he said, adding that their economy, finance and foreign ministers had been tasked with formulating the plan.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Pan also said the bank is formulating tools to provide emergency liquidity to nonbank institutions during a crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
In a book to be published Tuesday, “Poisoned Ivies,” Ms. Stefanik recalls formulating the question only after the three presidents had spent hours offering evasive, noncommittal answers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
The BBC understands UK government officials are also formulating plans to potentially evacuate British nationals from the Middle East, should airspace in the region remain closed.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
I could already imagine them formulating a plan.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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