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Meanings of formative in English

Russian
форматив
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форматив

Forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning.

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Usage of formative in English
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However, another important factor is that of Nurture during their formative years.
The Irish Times
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It was quite a formative experience for them, said a NATO diplomat.
Reuters
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Advertisement Q: How did that formative experience lead you towards photographing tribes?
BBC
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Her formative years occurred during the rise of the Maori Rasta Movement.
Radio NZ
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It's not good when your formative icons start getting inconsistent on you.
Woken furies
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The latter develops solely from the living formative yelk of the stem-cell.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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There was no food or energy to spare in these formative eons.
The Disposable Male
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The formative years of Putin and Louis-Napoleon have little in common, though.
Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era
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Both happen to be fabrications, and what's more, oversimplify his formative years.
The new yorker
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New York and Paris are also featured but in their formative stages.
The Irish Times
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I got a lot of rejection, but those years were definitely formative.
The Guardian
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For all of my formative years he played to scratch or better.
A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the coll...
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These people were traumatized during their formative years by an older sibling.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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It was crude, self-conscious and self-assertive; provincial and formative, rather than formed.
"'Tis Sixty Years Since" / Address of Charles Francis Adams; Fou...
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People who knew Khamenei in his formative years describe a complex man.
Reuters
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And for me, Jerry was very formative in my high school years.
Wired
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