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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

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

Lamas and his colleagues then formulate advice to share with beekeepers around the nation.

From Barron's May 19, 2026

“I suggest you take this time to formulate a strategy. We may not be Erudite, but mental preparedness is one aspect of your Dauntless training. Arguably, it is the most important aspect.”

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

A "reasoning model" trained on task-specific examples interprets the goal and formulates Phantom's action plan.

From BBC Jun. 8, 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

In the story, experimental author Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, incensed by the kind of Black stories that sell, formulates a fraud to pay for care of his declining mom.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 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

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

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 officers formulated a plan and safely took the suspects into custody.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

There he formulated his concept of sea power, centered the college’s curriculum around it, and earned international acclaim for his writing.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 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

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 his speech, Streeting said Labour had suffered from an "overcautiousness" when formulating policies in opposition.

From BBC May 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

Consequently, the Greeks and the Romans were incapable of formulating the idea of laws of nature, and without them they could not develop modern science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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