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formula

[fawr-myuh-luh] / ˈfɔr mjə lə /


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They got that result due to a state formula for determining who gets air conditioning.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2026

The researchers did not include infant formula, beverages, or purees commonly offered as first foods.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Don’t miss: These risk strategists have a new formula for the Iran ‘TACO’ trade.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

It is the combination of the two that has the "winning" formula, he said.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Fred’s favorite episode was the one where Duke, Nala, and Scruffy had to ski off a cliff in Switzerland to chase down the villain, who had stolen a top-secret chocolate formula.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

GP2 and GP3, and their successors F2 and F3, are one-make formulae; everyone has to use the same chassis and engine.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2026

The news is not dictated by straightforward formulae, it's driven by events and sentiment.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2025

The complex interactions of fluid and soft matter physics prove challenging to simplify into cut-and-dried formulae.

From Science Daily Apr. 16, 2024

"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

The goal is to use as much of that material as possible and develop magnet formulas tailored to the resources already available.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

According to the researchers, these particles provided strong protection against damaging ultraviolet radiation while producing less white cast than conventional zinc oxide formulas.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

Instead, it mostly uses prices collected by another federal statistics agency, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, part of the Labor Department, and then recombines them using its own formulas.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Even more impressively, he has earned a reputation for doing so mid-tournament - tweaking his system game by game to land on formulas that win the World Cup or come very close to doing so.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

But form the plurals of others simply by adding s: curriculums; formulas; memorandums; stadiums.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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