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formulate

[fawr-myuh-leyt] / 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

He glanced around the fields, desperately trying to formulate a plan.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Will that be a factor in Vladimir Putin’s calculations as he formulates Russia’s response?

From BBC Nov. 18, 2024

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

Mr. Schumer is seeking to craft a comprehensive AI bill and has started talking with his House Republican counterparts as he formulates such a legislative package.

From Washington Times Oct. 3, 2023

“Who formulates the policies of these two companies?”

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated, external and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.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

Most commercial batteries use specially formulated liquid or solid electrolytes.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

Angelica Salas, who heads one of Los Angeles’ most influential immigrant rights groups, met regularly last summer with City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez — himself the son of Mexican immigrants — as they formulated a response.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 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

He absorbed the details of every problem instinctively, formulated a solution or a path to the solution as he listened, and moved rapidly on to the next item.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Pan also said the bank is formulating tools to provide emergency liquidity to nonbank institutions during a crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 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

Senior state planners are formulating a five-year plan to lift domestic demand, acknowledging that the world’s second-largest economy currently faces an imbalance between “strong supply and weak demand.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 2, 2026

Around the time that Shin and Park were formulating their escape plan, the North Korean government concluded that the border had become far too porous and posed a threat to internal security.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden




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