Example Sentences

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The politburo said China will formulate "a basket of plans" to resolve risks stemming from local government debt, which economists estimate at more than $9 trillion.

From Reuters • Jul. 26, 2023

He doesn’t believe the owner’s new economic study group will formulate proposals specifically aimed at him.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2023

While hosting the Western Pacific Naval Symposium last weekend, the prime minister said Japan will formulate a new national security strategy by the end of the year.

From Washington Times • Nov. 13, 2022

“I will commit to you and everyone out there we will do what we always said we would do, at the end of the regular season, we will formulate divisions based on power rankings.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2022

Somebody, cleverer in logic than we are, will come along afterwards and find a higher rule which we have obeyed, and will formulate it concisely.’

From Clara Hopgood by Rutherford, Mark