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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

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

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

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

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

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

The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated, external and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.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

Vonetta and Fern eyed the wooden sticks and formulated ideas about turning them into hairpins, play-fight swords, and pickup sdcks.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

But instead of formulating a plan, the suit argued, the officers began yelling at him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The U.S. has no federal laws requiring AI companies to either restrict or disclose queries about making weapons or formulating plans that pose a safety threat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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

In a book to be published Tuesday, “Poisoned Ivies,” Ms. Stefanik recalls formulating the question only after the three presidents had spent hours offering evasive, noncommittal answers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Myrna stopped in the doorway, her arms laden with tablets, and moved her colorless lips for a moment before she spoke, as if she w'ere formulating an address.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole


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