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formulate

[fawr-myuh-leyt] / ˈfɔr mjəˌleɪt /


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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

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

The new Zhenwu M890 chip "provides a reliable option that is insulated from fluctuations in export controls, enabling domestic AI companies to formulate long-term technology roadmaps," said eetrend.com's Zhang.

From Barron's May 20, 2026

Radcliffe hoped they would formulate a set of bipartisan recommendations to the state legislature.

From Salon May 12, 2026

We formulate new ideas by analogy, working from what we know toward what we don’t know, and what the reformers knew were the rhythms of the agricultural seasons.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Will that be a factor in Vladimir Putin’s calculations as he formulates Russia’s response?

From BBC Nov. 18, 2024

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

The team investigated a version of gravity known as Einstein-Cartan theory, formulated in 7 dimensions on a mathematical structure called a G2-manifold with torsion.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 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

"Lengthy WhatsApp conversations between senior officials and ministers appear now to be the format by which government policy is formulated."

From BBC May 15, 2026

Over the years Ben had formulated fire-tested strategies.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

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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