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Formulate

verb

(past & past part. formulated; pres. part. formulating)

Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses. Synonyms: develop, explicate.

Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort. Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, invent.

Put into words or an expression. Synonyms: articulate, give voice, phrase, word.

Prepare according to a formula.

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"Formulate" Quotes from Famous Books

... way, and you are probably most of you ready to formulate it yourselves. But, before doing so, remark how inevitably the question of determinism and indeterminism slides us into the question of optimism and pessimism, or, as our fathers called it, 'the question ...

— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James

... domain for the generation of power, have already passed the House of Representatives and are ready for immediate consideration and action by the Senate. With the deepest earnestness I urge their prompt passage. In them both we turn our backs upon hesitation and makeshift and formulate a genuine policy of use and conservation, in the best sense of those words. We owe the one measure not only to the people of that great western country for whose free and systematic development, as it seems to me, our legislation has done so little, but also to the people of ...

— President Wilson's Addresses • Woodrow Wilson

... had time to formulate his fear. And then a startling memory spurred him to more desperate haste. He recalled the old well by the barn, boarded over years before and later so concealed by the encroachment of grass and weeds that its very existence had been forgotten. But time had taken its toll even ...

— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith

... partially at least lost sight of is that education, freedom, organization, agitation, the suffrage, are but tools to an end. What she now needs is to formulate that end so nobly and clearly that the most ignorant woman may understand it. The failure to do this is leading her deeper and deeper into fruitless unrest. It is also dulling her sense of the necessity of keeping her business abreast with the ...

— The Business of Being a Woman • Ida M. Tarbell

... should be like some little fishing-boat, with an unskilful or feeble hand at the tiller, yawing from one point of the compass to another, and not keeping a straight and direct course. I pray you, dear brethren, to front this question: 'After all, and at bottom, what is it I am living for? Can I formulate the aims and purposes of my life in any intelligible statement of which I should not be ashamed?' Some of you are not ashamed to do what you would be very much ashamed to say, and you practically answer the question, 'What are you seeking?' by pursuits that you durst not call ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

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