Example Sentences

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Their music tends to be formulaically structured, the performances tightly choreographed.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2024

The essays I read were competent, but most seventh graders with social-media experience could have made the same arguments less formulaically.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

There are times when only satire can do the work of honest journalism, and Wolf recognized that it is the reason late-night political segments have become formulaically routine.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2018

As the Knicks have formulaically shown, the sum of such little embarrassments is systemic dysfunction.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2015

The big speech in “Kill the Messenger,” a likable if formulaically pulse-pounding fiction about a real investigative reporter, Gary Webb, arrives near the end.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2014