formulate
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It asked developers to formulate a plan for how to raise the remainder of the money needed, either through private equity, tax exempt bonds or other mechanisms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
She’ll even, at times, fire it up to formulate a response to the person standing next to her.
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
He hoped the Mind’s Flower would keep her nonsensical long enough to formulate a Plan B. MoMo was due on the island soon, and things were going from bad to worse.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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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
So what will have caught Iraola's eye as he formulates his plot to revive Liverpool after arriving from Bournemouth?
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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
“Who formulates the policies of these two companies?”
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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The choice of cathode material, or how the electrolyte – which separates cathode and anode – is formulated are key details influencing the performance and longevity of sodium ion batteries.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
"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
That publication has been a proponent for changing, extending or rejecting the legal definition of genocide enshrined in the 1948 Genocide Convention, formulated by Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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
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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
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
You’re not formulating an answer when you’re watching a movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
If Darwin had actually read it—particularly as he was writing Variation and formulating pangenesis—this study might have provided the final critical insight to understand his own theory of evolution.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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