Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To formulate again.
WordNet
v. formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis [syn: redevelop]
Usage examples of "reformulate".
It identifies, I think, the very privilege, the very ground on which the Orientalist places himself so as to write about, legislate for, and reformulate Islam.
Once we arrive in the country, we might discover that the reality was quite different from what we had expected, requiring us to reformulate plans, strategies, and possibly even goals to conform to what we encounter.
Just as Fascism in its time seized upon the ancient terroristic and blackmailing Mafia in Sicily and partly annexed it, partly changed it and so superseded it, just as the Nazi movement incorporated large chunks of the Communist party in its efforts to reformulate Germany, so now the Modern State fellowship grappled with the world-wide series of organizations which had superseded democratic institutions nearly everywhere, made every effort to capture the imaginations of their adherents, and showed the most unscrupulous boldness in seizing their direction whenever it could.
Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them.
The information you brought back has helped us to reformulate our policy toward them.
Anger, catharsis, the reformulated frustration-aggression hypothesis, and health consequences.
Meanwhile, Witten was making significant headway on reformulating the weak link he had earlier identified.
The outline of the jewel began to re-emerge, tentative, making an effort at reformulating itself.
This objection, however, does not present an insuperable obstacle, because the revolutionary past, and the contemporary cooperative productive capacities through which the anthropological characteristics of the multitude are continually transcribed and reformulated, cannot help revealing a telos, a material affirmation of liberation.
I reformulated some of the outtakes and made a second segment for the wildlife sites.
The passage we are referring to, however, is fundamentally different in that instead of focusing on the unidimensionality of the process described by Marx and reformulated and extended by the Frankfurt School, the Foucauldian passage deals fundamentally with the paradox of plurality and multiplicity-and Deleuze and Guattari develop this perspective even more clearly.
Once we arrive in the country, we might discover that the reality was quite different from what we had expected, requiring us to reformulate plans, strategies, and possibly even goals to conform to what we encounter.
But in the process of the splicing and reformulating genetic codes, the wildness had been bred out of the animals, making them more like large domestic cats, and certainly unfit for reintroduction into the wild.
We get hammered on the stuff that gets reformulated for flitters, but all the lorries run on filtered oil.
If it weren't the need to get finishing oil or lamp oil, it was time to sweep the floor, or refill the moisture pot, or sharpen the chisels, or take the saws to Ginstal for sharpening, or reformulate the glue, or fix a stool or chair for Rissa.