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reformulate en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English formulate English reformulate From re- + formulate.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To formulate again or differently.
   • Some soft drinks have been reformulated to include less sugar.
   • In musicals, when they are not unabashedly revivals, the assumption seems to be all we need do is find appropriate chunks of recent, or not-so-recent, history and cleverly reformulate them. Remakes, re-dos, sequels, prequels, and postquels are all the rage in films, TV, and on the stage. 2001, Charles Marowitz, Stage Dust: A Critic's Cultural Scrapbook from the 1990s, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 23:
   • He states and restates, formulates and reformulates, refines and rerefines. 2017, Gary Best, Harold Laski and American Liberalism, →ISBN, page 128:
   • "This is now called Skimpflation, which means a manufacturer has reformulated one of its products, usually with cheaper ingredients," says Dworsky, a former Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General in consumer protection. 2022 November 2, Leslie Gaydos, quoting Edgar Dworsky, “Skimpflation: Brands May Be Changing Their Recipes to Cut Costs – But It's Hard to Tell”, in NBC Boston:
   • In the present paper this criterion is reformulated in terms of pseudotensorial invariants of the form.. 2015, Ruslan Sharipov, “On positive bivariate quartic forms”, in arXiv:
   • A narrative circulates at Mitchell, Hall about a naive young employee who, in his eagerness to be creative, "reinvents the wheel," devoting so many hours reformulating work that has already been done that he drives himself into a nervous breakdown. 1993, Marsha Witten, “Narrative and the Culture of Obedience at the Workplace”, in Dennis K. Mumby, editor, Narrative and Social Control: Critical Perspectives (Sage Annual Reviews of Communications Research; 21), Newbury Park, Calif.; London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 108:

Forms

Relateds

reformulation · reformulator

Translations (8)

sv omformulera (to formulate again) · fr reformuler (to formulate again) · it riformulare (to formulate again) · cs přeformulovat (to formulate again) · pt reformular (to formulate again) · es reformular (to formulate again) · nl herformuleren (to formulate again) · ro reformula (to formulate again)