formulate
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Florida counties generally formulate the assessed value using a percentage of the home’s sales price, he explained.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
"Computational models, like ours, can be used to formulate new hypotheses about real biological populations," she says.
From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025
While lawyers and their staff do much of the legwork for trial preparation, a client works with their attorneys to help formulate a defense.
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2025
He advises patients to formulate clear questions, provide all the relevant context about their conditions and request different possible diagnoses rather than a single answer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
Kelton shushes me, and I know why—the distressed voice of a girl is a bleeding wound in a sea of sharks—but I don’t have time to formulate a better course of action here.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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