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formulate

[fawr-myuh-layt] / ˈfɔr mjəˌleɪt /


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Hydrophobic compounds are substances that do not dissolve easily in water, a characteristic that can make certain medications difficult to formulate and deliver effectively.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

“The audience has finally gotten there, and now we can formulate a plan.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Wendy’s also withdrew its outlook for the year, saying its new management needs time to fully assess the business opportunities and formulate a comprehensive turnaround plan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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

Surveys to determine what issues bothered parents and students were drawn up and mailed out, and the responses were processed in order to formulate an agenda.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

The DH is, therefore, "unable to move forward on this matter whilst the UK Government formulates its position in response to the recommendations".

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 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

"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

During the 2009 H1N1 “swine” flu pandemic, getting newly formulated shots “took a lot longer than we hoped,” Pan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

That question naturally leads to another: Could quantum mechanics be formulated using only real numbers?

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

Newton’s culture, it could be argued, was inherently conservative and traditionalist; Newton could not have formulated the idea of a revolution even if he had wanted to.

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

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

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

People looking up at her—at her smooth pretty vivacious face—had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith


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