Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act, process, or result of formulating.
Wiktionary
- n. The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
- n. medicine A medicinal preparation
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a substance prepared according to a formula
- n. inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally
- n. the style of expressing yourself
Examples
“Actually, read in this light, the formulation is as demystified as it is idealized, since it is Shelley's distinctive fate to have learned her first words literally through the signifier of death, both the "M-A-R-Y" of”
“Again, what I find most telling about this formulation is that denying students access to theory would impede their ability "to have a meaningful understanding of modern literary scholarship" (emphasis mine).”
“But that formulation is simplistic and unhelpful to any intellectual honest person engaged in interpretation of a difficulty topic.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan Confirmation Hearings as a “Teaching Moment”
“Levy's formulation is no different than that I have heard from the very highest levels of the Israeli government and among a wide variety of factions in the Knesset.”
The Huffington Post: Steve Clemons: Conspiracism American Style: The Daniel Levy Debate
“His formulation is “I inherited …,” which is absolutely true.”
“Well, the usual formulation is “coldest x on record” because temperature records only go back to 1850 or something.”
Matthew Yglesias » January Was the Warmest Temperature in World History
“I think the classic formulation from the left, expounded by my colleague R. Luxemburg, is that war goods do indeed increase demand, but is a tax on labor who pay for the production and consumption of war – a really shitty way to increase effective demand, but a nifty way to transfer wealth to the capitalist class.”
“The only problem with this formulation is that it is simply a lie.”
The Huffington Post: Rev. Jesse Jackson: GOP Runs on the "Big Lie"
“The fact that the Senate has more “at stake,” in your formulation, is part of the problem.”
“However, I am not an American citizen, so the global income taxation system of IRS does not apply to me. (this absurd formulation is found almost nowhere else in the rich world).”
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graduate school words
hegemonic, heteronormativity, discursively, racialization, trajectory, marginalization, formulation, exacerbated
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