adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a formulaic mystery novel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it was formulaic fast Ministry music, so we thought it out.
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It is the simple or formulaic use of the trust clause which is of the greater significance.
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Set up so it could be sustained by armies of private profit-making firms, it had to be formulaic .
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There is no doubt generally that children love jokes and riddles that are predictably structured and heavily formulaic , whatever the fashionable subject-matter.
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This film is too formulaic , meandering slowly through the typical initiation scenes of a stranger in a strange place.
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This would not imply that all of the many thousands of formulaic expressions would be expressly taught.
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Within the category of lexical items, I include the formulaic patterns I referred to earlier.