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upbringing

[uhp-bring-ing] / ˈʌpˌbrɪŋ ɪŋ /
NOUN
rearing
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NOUN
childhood
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She says his upbringing was deeply rooted in tradition.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

He begins with a quick account of his upbringing in St. Louis and how, during college at Trinity in Connecticut, he fell in love with New York City.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

This dual-language class is also a federally funded Head Start program — long considered a gold standard in early childhood education — and must integrate learning with each child’s cultural and linguistic upbringing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Here, Szor and Abraham quietly demonstrate the lengths and risks of their allyship, pitting their relatively comfortable upbringing in Israel against their fervent quest to unlearn a propagandistic way of living.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

Seaborg’s early life told the same quintessentially American story of immigration and assimilation as Ernest Lawrence’s, although his upbringing was rather more insular and culturally constrained than that in the Lawrences’ educated household.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Perhaps the difference in your upbringings plays a part.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Both had tough upbringings marked by an absent father, intermittently absent mother and reliable grandparents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

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 ● Mar. 4, 2026

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

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi




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