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

It is a prosaic work, this bringing-up of children, and there can be little rose-water in it.

From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

In birth, bringing-up, habits, instincts, they were widely dissimilar, and yet, somehow, they formed a sort of companionship palatable to each.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

I sort of wondered if he was to blame, and managed to lay all the fault on his city bringing-up.

From The Orphan by Mulford, Clarence E.