formative
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While “The Social Reckoning” might stand in the shadow of its formative predecessor, the film confidently asserts its own merit.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Money plays a pretty formative role in these races.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Sibling relationships are some of the most formative, co-dependent bonds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Unfortunately, work has also faded as a formative experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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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