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Example sentences for: formative

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The cost breakdown was as follows: formative research to learn about malaria treatment issues ($2000); design and production of 1500 shopkeeper job aids and 1500 client posters ($3000); training of mobile vendors and wholesale counter attendants, including t-shirts, caps and receipt books ($2800); and monitoring of mobile vendors and wholesale counter attendants by the DHMT ($500).
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.
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.
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).
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.