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upbringing

[uhp-bring-ing] / ˈʌpˌbrɪŋ ɪŋ /
NOUN
rearing
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NOUN
childhood
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Upbringing: Miyasaki grew up in Sugar City, Idaho, a town of less than 1,500.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2016

Upbringing, environment and experience also play a part.

From Economist • Jan. 23, 2014

Religious Upbringing The woman, the youngest of five children, was raised in a deeply religious household, according to Mamoudou and another brother, Mamadou, who is in his early 50s.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2011

Or should go back to where it all began with A Question of Upbringing in 1951.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I made anew to fight, and shaped as I had learned in the Exercises of mine Upbringing; for truly I had been alway deep in practice of such matters.

From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope




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