formative
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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
Plus, you got those lessons during those important formative years.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
She argues that the Qumran sect actively followed the 364-day calendar during its formative period in the second century BCE.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Throughout my formative years, the set remained on our library shelves, weighty and regal-looking with its gold spines.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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