upbringing
noun
up·bring·ing
ˈəp-ˌbriŋ-iŋ 
: early training
especially
: a particular way of bringing up a child
had a strict upbringing
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The After Hours and This Is Us star, 69, is opening up about the ups and downs of his Hollywood upbringing and career in a new book, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir, out now.
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Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
To some significant degree, Moore said, he was primed by his upbringing in a supportive household filled with music, art and books.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 9 June 2024
Shaken by the tension between her upbringing as a reverend’s daughter, and her increasing encounters with the supernatural, Garcia articulates these intuitive spells through mutable sonic contours, featuring the psych-rock touches of Chicano Batman members Carlos Arévalo and Eduardo Arenas.
—Suzy Exposito, SPIN, 6 June 2024
But the effort to create a generation of conservative youngsters is doomed by one hard fact: Ideology is not baked into genetics, or even upbringing, no matter how much work parents put into it.
—Joel Mathis, theweek, 6 June 2024
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Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
To some significant degree, Moore said, he was primed by his upbringing in a supportive household filled with music, art and books.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 9 June 2024
Shaken by the tension between her upbringing as a reverend’s daughter, and her increasing encounters with the supernatural, Garcia articulates these intuitive spells through mutable sonic contours, featuring the psych-rock touches of Chicano Batman members Carlos Arévalo and Eduardo Arenas.
—Suzy Exposito, SPIN, 6 June 2024
But the effort to create a generation of conservative youngsters is doomed by one hard fact: Ideology is not baked into genetics, or even upbringing, no matter how much work parents put into it.
—Joel Mathis, theweek, 6 June 2024
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upbringing
noun
up·bring·ing
ˈəp-ˌbriŋ-iŋ
: the process or way of bringing up and training
had a strict upbringing
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