formative
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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
It was a messy and indecisive conflict, but its importance as a formative event in Canada’s multilingual, multicultural national identity was enormous.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Why did she spend the formative years of her life being treated by teachers and peers like a failure, instead of a person navigating a world designed for a different way of thinking?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
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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