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 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

She became the mother of seven children, to whose bringing-up she gave strict attention.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

He would leave that building up of a future family of Marquises,—if future Marquises there were to be,—to one of those young darlings whose bringing-up would manifestly fit them for the work.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony