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Whether you’re in your 50s, 60s or living in a nursing home, those formative experiences in the schoolyard have a way of coming back to bite you when you least expect it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
She argues that the Qumran sect actively followed the 364-day calendar during its formative period in the second century BCE.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Brit School, where Dean spent her formative years, seems like a kind of Hogwarts, except focused on the arts and everyone’s a Gryffindor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Whitney Houston’s powerhouse version stands alone, but Dolly’s quieter, mournful ode to her collaboration with Porter Wagoner is the artful, formative sketch to a colossal mural.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Natural objects have, for an Aristotelian, their own internal formative principles, while artificial objects are made according to a design imposed from outside.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
So formatives: stare and stair, starling; steer, sterling; shere, sherrif; child, children; kind, kindred; know, knollege; and dhe rest.
From A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston
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