Collocations for formulate - verb

fully
carefully, properly
His ideas are always very carefully formulated.

clearly, explicitly
specially, specifically
products that are specially formulated for safe use on leather

try to
help (to)

Formulate is used with these nouns as the object:
answer, argument, code, concept, doctrine, guideline, hypothesis, idea, objective, philosophy, plan, policy, principle, proposal, recommendation, response, rule, sentence, strategy, theory