reformulate

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ formulate.

Verb

reformulate (third-person singular simple present reformulates, present participle reformulating, simple past and past participle reformulated)

1. (transitive) To formulate again or differently.

   Some soft drinks have been reformulated to include less sugar.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2001, Charles Marowitz, Stage Dust: A Critic's Cultural Scrapbook from the 1990s, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     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.

   • 2015, Ruslan Sharipov, “On positive bivariate quartic forms”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     In the present paper this criterion is reformulated in terms of pseudotensorial invariants of the form..

   • 2017, Gary Best, Harold Laski and American Liberalism, →ISBN, page 128:

     He states and restates, formulates and reformulates, refines and rerefines.

   • 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^[2]:

     "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.

Related terms

• reformulation
• reformulator

Translations

to formulate again

• Czech: přeformulovat
• Dutch: herformuleren (nl)
• French: reformuler (fr)
• Italian: riformulare
• Portuguese: reformular
• Romanian: reformula (ro)
• Swedish: omformulera (sv)

Spanish

Verb

reformulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of reformular combined with te