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1
to convey in appropriate or telling terms
- the doctor was trying to formulate a good way to tell her that she would need surgery
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2
to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form
- a writer planning to formulate a response to what he considered a very unfair review of his work
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The first known use of formulate was in 1855
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