Synonym: define, describe, express, put, voice. Similar words: formula, emulate, simulate, simulated, stimulate, accumulate, emulation, cumulative. Meaning: ['fɔrmjəleɪt /'fɔːmjʊl-] 
v. 1. elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses 2. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort 3. put into words or an expression 4. prepare according to a formula.
v. 1. elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses 2. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort 3. put into words or an expression 4. prepare according to a formula. 
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1) He took care to formulate his reply very clearly.
2) He struggled to formulate an answer.
3) I was impressed by the way he could formulate his ideas.
4) The results will be used to formulate development plans.
5) It would be exceedingly difficult even to formulate one.
6) Jackie paused to formulate her reply.
7) I hardly dared formulate my ambition to myself.
8) It must initiate, formulate and direct general policy.
9) He did not attempt to formulate his ideas in finished form; he thought aloud so one could hear the brain tick.
10) Yet Marx and Engels' determination to formulate general theories eventually made Marxism one of the most successful transnational ideologies.
11) Accept that and formulate an organised plan of action and you're nearly there!
12) She may not formulate these questions consciously,(http://sentencedict.com/formulate.html) but her planning and teaching will reflect the influence of these considerations.
13) What he must do is to formulate an assertion which contradicts our own, and give us his instruction for testing it.
14) An attempt has therefore been made to formulate goals and objectives for online user education from this point of view.
15) Some people are very sound but can formulate opinions only after prolonged consideration.
16) It enables us to formulate hypotheses about relationships among the different components of culture and to test these hypotheses empirically.
17) It is difficult to formulate a standard definition of a joint venture.
18) It helped to formulate the Institute's response to the Review.
19) To answer these questions, we have to formulate a theory of the determinants of growth.
20) The exercise itself actively helps you to formulate your aims and strategy for bargaining.
21) The researcher is there to help the agency formulate the right strategy and the right advertising solution.
22) Within the confines of lunch, I did my best to formulate what I thought.
23) The exploratory design is used to accumulate data in order to formulate more precise hypotheses and research questions.
24) A resolution called on the President, the government and the Supreme Soviet to formulate detailed legislation to implement the programme.
25) The council has only ten land agents and they must formulate management agreements for any of the 3800 SSSIs in Britain.
26) The formidable challenge for progressive bishops and theologians who dominated the Second Vatican Council was to formulate a compelling alternative.
27) Such auxiliary data might, for instance, confirm a suggested explanation or help to formulate a more appropriate rate for some event.
28) The members of the two branches felt no need to formulate a new philosophy or design an ideological camera.
29) They therefore had decided to wait and see how the operations progressed before attempting to formulate subsequent war strategy.
30) One is that it should incorporate Feynman's proposal to formulate quantum theory in terms of a sum over histories.
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