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Lionel Messi will captain Argentina against Spain in the World Cup final, facing the adopted country where he spent his formative soccer years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

And now, all of these years later, you feel ostracized from your remaining family and, more than that, you were left with a few mementoes of those formative years and no inheritance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

But falling in love at such a formative age allowed us to develop a mutual transparency and radical candor that I’ve learned few people possess, especially with their exes.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

"Small venues were a huge, formative part of our journey. We wouldn't have existed without them," says singer Ellie Rowsell.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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 Elphinston, James