formative
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This is a generation that entered adulthood during a global pandemic after spending formative years online.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Blur's Dave Rowntree will also share the tales behind the band's formative years through unheard stories alongside candid photos from his new bestselling book, No One You Know.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Both Eblis and I have been huge fans of his since our formative years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The biopic of chef Anthony Bourdain focuses on his younger formative years, leaving the dark ending to his life out of the picture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Wolf interjected that he could always move to Russia, where he had spent the formative years of his life.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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