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formulate

[fawr-myuh-layt] / ˈfɔr mjəˌleɪt /


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It asked developers to formulate a plan for how to raise the remainder of the money needed, either through private equity, tax exempt bonds or other mechanisms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

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

One is that it should incorporate Feynman’s proposal to formulate quantum theory in terms of a sum over histories.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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

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

“Who formulates the policies of these two companies?”

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

One was a standard laboratory medium, while the other was formulated to more closely match the nutrient composition found in the human body.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated, external and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.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

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

During the “seven summits in seven months” extravaganza, Hall and Ball formulated a plan to go into business together guiding clients up the Seven Summits.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

You’re not formulating an answer when you’re watching a movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 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

Hazel could almost see the gears turning inside the queen’s head, formulating a plan.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan




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