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formative

[fawr-muh-tiv] / ˈfɔr mə tɪv /
ADJECTIVE
influential, impressionable
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
destructive noninfluential


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Formative cooking memories for us involve helping our families prepare large, communal meals during holidays.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2024

Around 900 BCE, the Andes region experienced a transformation when a single society, often called the Chavín culture, expanded across the entire area, opening what archaeologists call the Early Horizon, or Formative, period.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Formative, and transformative, their kinship endured, though in physical absentia, even after their splendid summer days of boyhood buoyancy in the Cinque Terre region ended.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021

Formative experiences like these, Ramos said, ensured he would never take any opportunity for granted but also left him expecting that the bottom could drop out at any moment.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2021

Her devoted services during concluding years of Heroic Age and also Formative Age of Faith unforgettable.

From Citadel of Faith by Shoghi Effendi




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