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formulate

[fawr-myuh-leyt] / ˈfɔr mjəˌleɪt /


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“The audience has finally gotten there, and now we can formulate a plan.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

She’ll even, at times, fire it up to formulate a response to the person standing next to her.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

It was this link between one-way genetic flow, patrilocality, and the non-reciprocity of exchange that led me, in Néandertal nu in 2022, to formulate the singular paradox: “Neanderthal, Sapiens: I love you… me neither.”

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

Instead we all stand there for a long time trying to formulate a response.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

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

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The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated, external and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.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

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

But if Stoll formulated an originalist argument for his position, it doesn’t make it into Mr. Canellos’s book.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

That question naturally leads to another: Could quantum mechanics be formulated using only real numbers?

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 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

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

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

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

But rather than formulating a response, his eyes narrow and his lips curl with rage.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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