Computers increasingly become principal actors in leveraging data to formulate questions, which requires radically new ways of reasoning.

计算机日益成为利用数据来制定问题的主要角色，而这需要全新的推理方法。

Critics love to generalize, to formulate trends into which all new work must be fitted, however contradictory.

评论家喜欢概括，归纳出所有新作品都必须符合的趋势，不管它们是如何地不符。

The time had come to formulate a hypothesis.

现在到了提出假设的时候。

In addition, President Obama has dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and other top officials to Mexico to formulate a coordinated response to the trafficking threat.

VOA : standard.2009.04.12

The better prepared students have to formulate the concepts, so that they can explain them, which really helps.

准备更好的学生得,建立知识概念，那样才能解释他们，这对他们非常有帮助。

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OK, so now let's try to formulate how to describe the equilibrium state and what dictates spontaneity.

现在我们尝试,找出如何描述平衡态以及,什么东西表明自发性。

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"My position is that while I would welcome the G-20 leaders to formulate their national stimulus packages, they should never lose sight of the challenges and pride of developing countries, particularly the most vulnerable poor countries,"

VOA : standard.2009.03.25

Army War College National Security Studies professor Larry Goodson says the U.S.-Karzai relationship has been souring for some time, but that,in his opinion, the Obama team has not been able to formulate any alternative to Hamid Karzai.

VOA : standard.2009.08.03

By mid-2007, company researchers had told executives the compound it had tried to formulate wouldn't work.

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In other words, it forced me to think, and it forced me to formulate a position.

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