formula
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Khadijah had insisted on nursing their newborn Aziza with her own breast milk, but Latif discovers that only a few pouches remain in the fridge and formula makes his baby sick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The formula isn’t what makes a movie a Hallmark movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Amy, a working mother with a toddler, said: "He was on formula and it was expensive for the tins. They never had offers or promotions."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Nestle and Sutherland, one element of the breakfast-cereal success formula is simple: “Sugar sells.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Either way, once I found success, I wasn’t going to mess with the formula.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
"We wanted to see whether the starting point of his formulae fit naturally into some physics," says Sinha.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
Students had formulae and equation sheets in some subjects, and were not tested on unfamiliar vocabulary in modern foreign language exams.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2023
"Negotiations are not just mathematical formulae but also personal relationships. And trust. Unfortunately, today we are losing a measure of trust in us," Podolyak said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023
Pupils had extra information, such as formulae sheets and advanced warning of topics, ahead of their exams.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2022
Manet started small, teaching me simple formulae of the sort required for twice-tough glass and heat funnels.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
This is why I have come to appreciate what I think of as back-pocket formulas: reliable little systems you can make while your brain goes mostly offline.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Physicists have spent decades trying to reproduce the process with mathematical equations, but deriving the necessary formulas proved exceptionally difficult.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
The states built a kind of clearinghouse to determine standard formulas such as how much capital an insurer must hold against every asset on its books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
It frees a student from memorizing all formulas, such as pi to the fourth decimal, but not from knowing whether an answer is right, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Look, if you have the formulas for those jelly beans, you should be able to figure out some way to stop them from doing whatever they’re doing inside my brain.”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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