reformulate
reformulate verb: to formulate again or differently.
Verb
reformulate (third-person singular simple present reformulates, present participle reformulating, simple past and past participle reformulated)
- To formulate again or differently.
- Some soft drinks have been reformulated to include less sugar.
- 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...
Examples of reformulate in a sentence
- 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.2001, Charles Marowitz, Stage Dust: A Critic's Cultural Scrapbook from the 1990s, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 23:
- 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:
- He states and restates, formulates and reformulates, refines and rerefines.2017, Gary Best, Harold Laski and American Liberalism, →ISBN, page 128:
Forms of reformulate
| third-person singular present | reformulates |
|---|---|
| present participle | reformulating |
| past participle | reformulated |
| past | reformulated |
Origin of reformulate
From re- + formulate.
Questions about reformulate
- What does reformulate mean?
- Reformulate means to formulate again or differently.
- How do you use reformulate in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is reformulate?
- Reformulate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of reformulate?
- The past tense of reformulate is reformulated.
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