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 am sure she would think that you were no credit to her bringing-up.

From Ruby at School by Paull, Minnie E.

Fortunately, Geoffry was something of a bookworm, and studious of temperament, or the bringing-up he had received, and the aimless life which it entailed upon him, would have sent the boy straight to the dogs.

From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram

After thirteen years of the most careful bringing-up there is complete and absolute failure.

From A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)