upbringing
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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
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
Fuentes pointed to her own upbringing to illustrate the importance of accessibility programs in the arts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
When he does speak, his words carry a faint Southern twang from his upbringing in Alabama.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
But it doesn’t take much investigation of his upbringing to realize that he had his Hamburg too.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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