boilerplate vs formulation

boilerplate and formulation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
boilerplate	Yes	No	No	No
formulation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, formulation is a hypernym of boilerplate; that is, formulation is a word with a broader meaning than boilerplate:

boilerplate: standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories
formulation: the style of expressing yourself

Other hypernyms of boilerplate include expression.

boilerplate (noun)	formulation (noun)
thick plate iron used in the production of boilers	inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally
standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories	the style of expressing yourself
	a substance prepared according to a formula