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formulate

[fawr-myuh-layt] / ˈfɔr mjəˌleɪt /


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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

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

To the best of my knowledge, for all the talk this question has engendered over the years, there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated, external and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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

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

Most commercial batteries use specially formulated liquid or solid electrolytes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

He absorbed the details of every problem instinctively, formulated a solution or a path to the solution as he listened, and moved rapidly on to the next item.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

School district officials had not been as wise in formulating their policies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The simplest way of formulating that question: Is there any objective sense in which a man can become a woman or vice versa?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

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

He was well on the way to formulating, entirely independently, Galileo’s law of fall.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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