formula
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Speaking in the Commons, Mahmood said she was committed to reviewing the funding formula, which is used to determine the funding that each force is given.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
That formula tended to reduce the price a merchant paid to advertise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
For the first time, they derived an exact formula for the phenomenon by using an unconventional mathematical approach.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
The “It Follows” escape plan is, as it happens, a window into Kelly’s celebrated talent for taking a narrative formula and turning it on its head, often with a sinister edge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
He typed in the formula again, this time adding an E between the structure for sulfur and nitrogen so it spelled out C191H173O21S5EN3.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
"We wanted to see whether the starting point of his formulae fit naturally into some physics," says Sinha.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
As in 2024, the Department for Education in England has said students in maths, physics, and combined science exams will be allowed to use formulae and equation sheets during their exams.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
The Department for Education in England has said students in maths, physics, and combined science exams will be allowed to use formulae and equation sheets.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025
"Negotiations are not just mathematical formulae but also personal relationships. And trust. Unfortunately, today we are losing a measure of trust in us," Podolyak said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023
In this they are quite unlike testimonies, which degrade as they pass from ear to ear in an endless game of Chinese whispers; eighteenth-century probability theorists actually devised formulae for calculating this rate of degradation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
AI models trained on proprietary data—decades of product formulas, sensor logs from machinery or customer transactions—can produce insights and predictions that off-the-shelf models can’t match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Myer said current national funding formulas for the police and fire service did not take into account the "seriousness" of the crime people in Teesside faced.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
In a settlement agreement reached last year, Conservice agreed to provide any California tenant disputing their bill with copies of invoices and formulas used to determine their specific charges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Resolving regional issues must be carried out away from formulas imposed from the outside. We know very well that solutions imported from abroad only bring disasters," he told the Saudi-owned newspaper.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
This is the zero-point energy, an infinity in the formulas of quantum theory.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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