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Example sentences for: formative

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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.
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.
Physician formative involvement in the tool development began with the convening of a focus group of 12 peer-identified primary care physician Opinion Leaders.
Product in this collective sense, used without an article, has none of the quantitative, formative, or even poetic associations that the word had otherwise acquired--as in "gross national product," "a product of Groton and Harvard," or "the fruit and product of his labors past" (Dryden).
It was in this house that Bill spent his formative years, learning to walk, talk, laugh, play, read, and pray.