[〈det experience.n〉 formative.a]
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In my career, these years will have served as a formative experience, giving me a grounding in the basics of the scientific process, a diverse set of methodologies to dissect scientific questions and a background understanding of microbiology and immunology and their associated fields of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It was definitely a formative experience on a number of levels.
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In Wikipedia:
This formative experience inspired her to set up Survivors Fund on her return to the UK to ensure that survivors received aid, assistance and support, and that their voices would be heard by people around the world.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
A. I’d agree that the prospect of extermination was a formative experience for me. [Laughs.] The Nazis taught me that the abnormal can become normal.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And I could BS something about one’s formative experience being a fighter pilot and the other’s a communal leader, but that’s irrelevant (not to mention patronizing).
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
His formative experience as anorganizer has seemed to carry through to his campaign, which has hiredmore organizers and invested more in grassroots activity than anycampaign in recent memory.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Please join me in this formative experience. this website (You’ll have to click another link once you’re there.)
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
This thought struck me last night as I was reading a book about the revolutions of 1848, the mighty continent – wide wave of insurrections that were such a formative experience for the young Marx and Engels.
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In Wikipedia:
) The perceived symptoms of schizophrenia were therefore an expression of this distress, and should be valued as a cathartic and trans – formative experience.
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In Wikipedia:
The experience was formative in his views on the teaching of journalism.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
John, sometime in their interminable repeating fortnight, had quite happily told Jack about his equally formative experience, complete with sound – effects, whistling, and mimes.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
One formative experience that led to Grace and I moving to Boston to help start the community of faith that’s so shaped us was God seeming to speak profoundly to me, Grace, and a small but persistent cast of others that Grace and I were on the verge of moving to Los Angeles because I was about to win a prestigious screenwriting fellowship with Columbia.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
hey, we should all do this at one point in our lives: create a non – judgmental’ ’ tarnation documentary’ ’ on what shaped your being. notes to self: a) record while immersed in the formative experience. raw is good. but careful about forcing an editing perspective unless you reached the other side of the tunnel b) don’t use EVERY special effect trick. 97 % will do just fine if you have detached dreamlike sequences c) err on the short side when in doubt on pacing. thank you for this off the wall recommendation, Chester Copperpot. to me it highlighted valuing [basically good] people for what they are. too often it is easy to hold others to a perceived social expectation.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I think the biggest formative experience for him was probably his slide into oblivion and time in prison, so I’ll go Physical first, then Mental, then Social.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I think the biggest formative experience for him was probably his slide into oblivion and time in prison, so I’ll go Physical first, then Mental, then Social.
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In the British National Corpus:
At the same time, the experience was formative in a more immediately practical way.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Was this the formative experience that led him to where he is now: a 41 – year – old man with no stable family life telling puerile, pedantic jokes for a living.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Looking back, this was a hugely formative experience in developing my political attitudes and a sublime academic experience.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I worked there a scant 18 months, but the experience was formative.
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(. .)))
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