formative
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He isn’t mining Monk’s Africanisms, like Randy Weston, who also spent formative time with Monk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
This is a generation that entered adulthood during a global pandemic after spending formative years online.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
“I also grew up watching a lot of telenovelas. They were really formative for me, specifically, the telenovelas on the local Channel 2,” Eimbcke confesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The filmmaker describes meeting her as a “strange coming home feeling,” since her “X-Files” character Scully held a special place in Schoenbrun’s formative years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Reluctant as Japanese and Koreans are to admit it, they are like twin brothers who shared their formative years.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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