bringing up

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"Back then, we really did have to research what to eat. "We started looking at Eastern and Indian food and were really expanding our cultural horizons from our bringing-up in the North East.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2017

Virginian by birth she is Middle-Western by adoption and bringing-up.

From Time Magazine Archive

I've been very far from steady myself, I'm sorry to say; I haven't done much credit to her bringing-up.

From Horace Chase by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

They were quicker-witted, and their town bringing-up had developed their intelligence more.

From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz

It is simply because their bringing-up has consisted in a persistent inoculation with the material facts of life, and a correspondingly persistent elimination of all imaginative ideas.

From The Curse of Education by Gorst, Harold Edward