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formulate

[fawr-myuh-leyt] / ˈfɔr mjəˌleɪt /


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“The audience has finally gotten there, and now we can formulate a plan.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

He said that in coming years, groups might take advantage of AI to formulate much larger attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 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

Mom shooed us off the bench, pushing us out the door before we could formulate an argument to stay.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

As she formulates her proposal for a better answer, Ms. Horn laments that a knowledge of Jewish civilization is part of a “null curriculum”—history that is ignored in most American classrooms.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Will that be a factor in Vladimir Putin’s calculations as he formulates Russia’s response?

From BBC Nov. 18, 2024

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

“Who formulates the policies of these two companies?”

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

One was a standard laboratory medium, while the other was formulated to more closely match the nutrient composition found in the human body.

From Science Daily Sep. 1, 2026

The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated, external and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.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

During the 2009 H1N1 “swine” flu pandemic, getting newly formulated shots “took a lot longer than we hoped,” Pan said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

For most of the twentieth century, medicine had been using the same primitive diagnostic criterion of sex formulated by Klebs way back in 1876.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Conagra’s team is already formulating products for 2028, keeping a close eye on new anti-obesity drugs currently winding their way through the patent pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 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

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

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

“But I am formulating a theory. It has to do with all those other books and encyclopedias you guys say are missing from the library. Do you have a complete list?”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein




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