formative
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We discuss how those formative years of camaraderie and work made us better men and women.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Alexandra Silber spent much of her theater career with classic musicals, and several formative years studying acting in Scotland, so she felt it was her fate to adapt Lerner and Loewe’s 1947 fantasy romp, “Brigadoon.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
Aged 11, he impressed in a trial with Real Madrid, but returned home anyway, a decision he calls one of the most formative of his life.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
However, his formative years were spent far from Benin.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 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
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