upbringing
Example Sentences
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Though their upbringings were markedly different, it was their shared comedic sensibilities that connected Jimenez and McMechan when they met in college.
From Los Angeles Times
Parents, it concluded, have a right to “direct the upbringing and education of their children” as they see fit.
The actor also offered a message of camaraderie to her fellow SAG-AFTRA members, citing the Chicago upbringing that made her a “union person.”
From Los Angeles Times
Her family and her regal upbringing in an otherwise poor country are enough for the everyday North Korean to accept her as leader.
From BBC
Determined to give her niece a stable upbringing, Aunt Irene unhappily but dutifully left a comfortable life in Ohio to return to her small-minded hometown in the Deep South.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
