formative
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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
The horror is how increasingly familiar that feels generations after his formative years.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
However, his formative years were spent far from Benin.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
A formative introduction to the internet’s tenuous rules for engagement happened when I was 13.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 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
Vocabulary lists containing formative
Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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Shape Up: Form
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