Formative [adjective]

For Parks, now an accomplished author, the book was a formative introduction to suspense.

The other recent fast-charging breakthrough is at a more formative stage, but it wouldn’t necessarily require upgrades to existing fast charging infrastructure.

It turns out, as childhood magic tricks go, there was no real bewitchery, just fresh ingredients that I paid little attention to during those formative years.

What helped Andy in particular become that sort of uber-competitor was having an older brother who’s a bit bigger and a bit stronger than him through most of his formative years.

The time spent with America’s best miler was formative for Magness.

I found it deeply formative for how I approach problem solving and partnership with a servant leadership mindset.

Politically they have been neglected, until the Citizens' Union gave them a formative part in political decisions.

If children are not in schools, they are yet subject to influences that are formative of character.

Consequently, we find that behind all systems of primitive religion lies the formative background of natural phenomena.

In its literal sense Bildung implies a shaping and formative action.