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Discover LudwigThe phrase "was formative" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing something which had an influential effect on a person, situation, or event. For example: "The experience was formative in shaping her outlook on life."
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It was formative".
The first experience was formative.
FBI was formative for me.
The glamour of expatriation was formative.
The discipline of classical dance was formative.
Sehgal said, "Especially when we first met, Dorothea was formative.
But, she says, the experience was formative, too.
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But it's formative.
But those four years there were formative.
Our physical and mental interactions with drawings are formative acts.
The major rationale for such expansive treatment of O'Neill's formative years is that for O'Neill they truly were formative.
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