upbringing

Vance took a subtly centrist tone in his speech, evoking his blue-collar upbringing while avoiding much of the harsh rhetoric that has made Trump so divisive.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

The younger Bush was different, leaning into his sun-baked upbringing while keeping one boot firmly back East.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

How can a black boy be fearless in America, Bernadette asks, and answers: What follows for John is a warped upbringing of parental favoritism mixed with cruelly rigorous training.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Young told the court about his chaotic upbringing and his recent scholarly pursuits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

To quote section thirty-two, line forty-five of the document you both signed, ‘Once a child has been told about his whatnot upbringing, no further contact with the whatnots he was raised with shall be allowed.’

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Iranian Lego team, as they also refer to themselves, is a small group that has found broad appeal by capitalizing on Millennial and Gen Z nostalgia for a toy central to their upbringings.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

Their upbringings may have been vastly different but the net result is not: they’re winners, as good as it gets at this.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Their contrasting upbringings is what attracted them to each other, Charles Tyler, a Yale classmate and friend of the couple, told the BBC.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025

One morning, Nina and Simon, high school sweethearts who come from very different upbringings, decide to go rock climbing.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

I'd always known that my mom and I had completely different upbringings.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi