- present participle of formulate.
formulating
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The leader of the Stafford Green group, Doug Rouxel told the BBC they were "formulating a response" to Labour's letter which they would like to put to party members first.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
It brought to power Carney, a former central banker who had spent the years after the 2008-09 financial crisis formulating a thesis that the West was overreliant on a single, increasingly unpredictable country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Most of us are not good listeners, me included, because we’re formulating an answer instead of just totally taking it in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Perhaps they were formulating their own theories about how Cedric had died.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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