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It also included a one-tap option to use Gemini’s deep-research capabilities to gather some recent developments at this firm and formulate questions based on them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
It was this link between one-way genetic flow, patrilocality, and the non-reciprocity of exchange that led me, in Néandertal nu in 2022, to formulate the singular paradox: “Neanderthal, Sapiens: I love you… me neither.”
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
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
There was no time for Frank to turn into an eagle and catch him; no time to formulate a rescue plan.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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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
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
“Who formulates the policies of these two companies?”
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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That question naturally leads to another: Could quantum mechanics be formulated using only real numbers?
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
A plan for the growing smell of rotten food was also still being formulated, officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The implementation mechanism of this plan, as part of the final agreement, will be formulated within 60 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 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
The next year Descartes formulated his famous doctrine cogito ergo sum, ‘I think therefore I am’; consequently, there is something, one thing, I know for certain.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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’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
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
The idea of an omnipotent creator God may help in formulating a theory of laws of nature, but it seems wrong to claim that it is a necessary precondition.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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