Words similar to formative

Example sentences for: formative

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Look back at the claims that were made for television during its formative years, and they sound a lot like the claims being made now for the Internet.
A slew of words like mavin and chutzpa , phrases like the bottom line and the whole megillah , idioms like eat one's heart out and need it like a hole in the head , formative elements like shm-(fancy/shmancy, value/shmalue) and -nik (spynik, noshnik) have become common coin in colloquial English, especially in the United States.
This was a group of people that had been born into near-bankruptcy and lived its formative years in a near-constant state of chaos.
It's an honor to share breakfast conversation with one of the few people the disgruntled smartasses of my formless generation can genuinely look up to as a formative influence.
The committee was named the Standing Committee on Spoken English in 1954, Mitchell and Delbridge being successive chairmen of SCOSE during its formative years.