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Perhaps their harmonies formed the soundtrack of your father’s college years, and later of your childhood Saturdays, and his taste shaped yours.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Three episodes on his path to the bench, what shaped him, and the philosophy about to define the most consequential court term in years.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

He told the BBC that as a former British colony, Kenya's relationship with France was different because it was not shaped by the same colonial history as West African countries.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

His parents’ experience living under totalitarianism shaped his outlook on the world.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Now with a child on each knee and ten more crowded close, he drew from another pocket his heavy cross-shaped winding key, each of the four ends shaped for a different size clock.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom