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formulate

[fawr-myuh-layt] / ˈfɔr mjəˌleɪt /


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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 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

But the offer enables us to formulate a possible structure: that of an unequal relationship between two human worlds, perhaps even a durable social asymmetry between the Neanderthal and Sapiens groups.

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

By the winter of 1857, Wallace had begun to formulate a general theory about the mechanism driving variation in these islands.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

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

"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

Plans are being formulated for the months ahead and the band's members have different ambitions for the future.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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

Everything we sold was enriched with antioxidants or enhanced with natural super-fruit extracts or formulated for health and beauty.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

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’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

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

He raised the conch for a moment "Very well then. I suppose what's what is whether there are ghosts or not-" He thought for a moment, formulating the question.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding




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