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The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

The two activists famously formulated a plan for what would become the United Farm Workers in a kitchen in Boyle Heights.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

It is not clear how its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz would work, or how meaningful security guarantees could be formulated, unless they involved outside powers such as Russia or China.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Most commercial dog food is formulated to nutritional standards set by the Association of American Feed Control Officials.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

In fact, all our theories of science are formulated on the assumption that space-time is smooth and nearly flat, so they break down at the big bang singularity, where the curvature of space-time is infinite.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking