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- formulaically adverb
Etymology
Origin of formulaic
Example Sentences
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For writing, Beck said, it can organize your notes or perform “formulaic writing” tasks.
From Los Angeles Times
Social media has become chockablock with people selling things in often formulaic ways.
Free of the formulaic—and wildly successful—pop of his boy band One Direction, he now had room to explore the full range of his musical interests.
While the fiction became formulaic, it could yield dazzling plots alongside predictable parlor tricks.
It’s his inability to flatter with formulaic language that ultimately causes him to be banished from Rome.
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