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Guitarrica’s fortuitous relationship with music emerged from the time he spent during his formative years in his grandparents’ Spanish village of less than 100 people, Las Cuevas de Cañart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

At 92, I see how our formative years tend to shape our politics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Money plays a pretty formative role in these races.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Whether you’re in your 50s, 60s or living in a nursing home, those formative experiences in the schoolyard have a way of coming back to bite you when you least expect it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

And although it is hazardous to assume any of this had formative effects on his character, it is equally an exaggeration to say that Eratosthenes grew up breathing an atmosphere of pure royalist docility.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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