formulate
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Hydrophobic compounds are substances that do not dissolve easily in water, a characteristic that can make certain medications difficult to formulate and deliver effectively.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
“The audience has finally gotten there, and now we can formulate a plan.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Ms. Takaichi eventually might even have to formulate an economic plan that doesn’t hinge on “stimulus” spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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
There was no time for Frank to turn into an eagle and catch him; no time to formulate a rescue plan.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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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
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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The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated, external and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.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
Aschenbrenner formulated the worldview behind his paper, called “Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead,” while he was still at OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Newton’s culture, it could be argued, was inherently conservative and traditionalist; Newton could not have formulated the idea of a revolution even if he had wanted to.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
It brought to power Carney, a former central banker who had spent the years after the 2008-09 financial crisis formulating a thesis that the West was overreliant on a single, increasingly unpredictable country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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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