upbringing
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The younger Bush was different, leaning into his sun-baked upbringing while keeping one boot firmly back East.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Was it something organic? Was it a matter of heredity, upbringing, environment, or external conditions?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
I may or may not have rolled my eyes, expecting to see a spider—something my North London upbringing taught me to care little about—when I froze.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Along the way they reexamine their difficult upbringing and find new ways to communicate that matter more than any artwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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
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
My sister and I may have had harder upbringings than my daughters did, but what if we could have had something of their kind of love too?
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024
It prompts others to chime in, openly sharing stories about their upbringings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2024
I'd always known that my mom and I had completely different upbringings.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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