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  • adjective reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of formulate.

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  • adjective devised; developed according to an orderly plan

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Examples

  • The hype that was created around the possibility of an ‘environment global deal’ being formulated from the conference always seemed to be overrated.

    Summit is not right with this Copenhagen Summit « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009

  • The hype that was created around the possibility of an ‘environment global deal’ being formulated from the conference always seemed to be overrated.

    2009 December « My Political Ramblings… 2009

  • Intelligent Design properly formulated is a theory of information.

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • For example, Einstein's Relativity Theory got support from the fact that it correctly implied the precession of the perihelion of Mercury, though that information was known long before Einstein formulated the theory.

    Confirmation Bias and ID 2006

  • LAUNCH CONTROL CENTER (LCC) (below ground living quarters) Two story 3ft. thick epoxy resin formulated concrete reinforced walls with stainless steel mesh.

    Boing Boing: September 1, 2002 - September 7, 2002 Archives 2002

  • I learnt concretely from his translation of Rabelais what Mikhail Bakhtin formulated as 'the image system of grotesque realism or the culture of popular laughter'; the importance of material and physical principles; the correspondence between the cosmic, social and physical elements; the overlapping of death and passions for rebirth; and the laughter that subverts hierarchical relationships.

    Kenzaburo Oe - Nobel Lecture 1995

  • The ration formulas that the nutritionist at the local co-op formulated is wrong, and is basically starving the animals to death.

    Second Impressions, Horror Story & more drivel... 1919

  • And here, as the name formulated itself, that little sprite of Brahms, that intermezzo, once more leapt to my side out of the parched fields.

    Alone Norman Douglas 1910

  • They were nearly identical with the terms formulated in the British ultimatum, which Napoleon had rejected.

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

  • Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World (Yale University Press, 2005) [iii] See Andreas Umland, "Elektoral'nyi avtorytaryzm postsovets'koï demokratiï [- a self-contradictory title formulated by the editors of the journal]," Krytyka, no.

    openDemocracy 2009

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