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formulate

[fawr-myuh-leyt] / ˈfɔr mjəˌleɪt /


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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

AFP has a deal with Mistral allowing the company's chatbot to draw on the news agency's articles to formulate responses.

From Barron's May 28, 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

To the best of my knowledge, for all the talk this question has engendered over the years, there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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

She sits on her branch some fifteen feet above him, swinging her leg and looking off over the field while she formulates the dare.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

But if Stoll formulated an originalist argument for his position, it doesn’t make it into Mr. Canellos’s book.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Plans are being formulated for the months ahead and the band's members have different ambitions for the future.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

The team investigated a version of gravity known as Einstein-Cartan theory, formulated in 7 dimensions on a mathematical structure called a G2-manifold with torsion.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

A plan for the growing smell of rotten food was also still being formulated, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

Vonetta and Fern eyed the wooden sticks and formulated ideas about turning them into hairpins, play-fight swords, and pickup sdcks.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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

It’s all very silly, but when it’s happening at a million miles an hour and you have to be formulating responses to it, I had to figure out a totally different relationship to the internet.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

You’re not formulating an answer when you’re watching a movie.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2026

According to the linguistic school currently on top, human beings are all born with a genetic endowment for recognizing and formulating language.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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