formative
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A major new TV drama about the formative years of The Beatles has started production in Germany and Liverpool.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Perhaps in the new technologies’ formative stages of development this yields valuable insights from far and wide.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
However, his formative years were spent far from Benin.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
So much of what we experience today is an echo of our formative years.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 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
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