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That stubbornness - the sense of not quite fitting in - was shaped early in life.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Perhaps their harmonies formed the soundtrack of your father’s college years, and later of your childhood Saturdays, and his taste shaped yours.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

It explores Justice Gorsuch’s personal life and his judicial temperament, including a pivotal case from nearly 20 years ago that seemed to have shaped his judicial philosophy.

From Slate • May 14, 2026

Earlier work from the team identified an important cloverleaf shaped structure within the virus's RNA.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

Once again, the war years shaped and hardened his convictions on this score, though the basic attitudes on which they rested were in place long before he assumed command of the Continental Army.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis