formative experience

collocation in English

meaningsofformativeandexperience

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formative
adjective
uk
/ˈfɔː.mə.tɪv/us
/ˈfɔːr.mə.t̬ɪv/
relating to the time when someone or something is starting to develop ...
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experience
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us
/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition offormativeandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofformative experience

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Years of reading patents and visualizing the machines, devices, and electromagnetic phenomena described in them is aformativeexperience.
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Theformativeexperiencefor me was more with mathematics.
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Firmly embedded as theformativeexperienceof a hero's childhood, the simple fact that it is all a fiction is, perhaps, a futile point to make.
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The movement's backbone was formed principally by men of this type, the recently risen or currently rising petty bourgeois, for whom unification had been aformativeexperience.
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For many young people the opportunity to become involved in the community, either here or overseas, can be a trulyformativeexperience.
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It recognises that education is aformativeexperienceand has a unique role in the development of not just individual pupils but of society as a whole.
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It was a positive, and for many of us—we must admit—an exciting andformativeexperiencewhich helped us, difficult though it was at the time, in our subsequent lives.
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It really is the proper beginning of the person'sformativeexperience.
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The program is aformativeexperiencefor many students that ultimately choose a career in marine science, biology, or policy.
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Hisformativeexperiencebegan in vaudeville and silent film.
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The insincerity of the adults, their lack of respect for the world of the children was aformativeexperienceof his childhood and youth.
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Aformativeexperiencethat would shape the young boy and spark this great passion within him came from a simple electricity bulb.
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These formative experiences and their perceived benefits were to emerge again in later responses.
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In general, the process of developing useful assessment tools for professionalism is necessary for the formative experiences of residents.
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This must have been a veryformativeexperiencefor thereafter he devoted much of his research to the scleractinian corals and the environmental factors influencing their distribution.
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In doing this, they draw on their own formative experiences.
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Their attitude to these cultural practices was shaped by their own formative experiences and ranged from negative to positive.
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These developmental experiences are epigenetic in nature which means that certain experiences must take place before other formative experiences can occur.
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But most relevant to this paper are the boy's formative experiences.
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This is where the reader is introduced to the protagonist, a faceless man revisiting his original sin, his childhood fall from grace that proved to be an enduringlyformativeexperience.
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