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Example sentences for: upbringing

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A generation ago, adoption agencies considered mental illness to be strictly a product of poor upbringing, and too private and unpleasant to disclose to prospective parents.
Tamara Jenkins, the writer and first-time director, has an eye for absurd juxtapositions that was obviously sharpened by the pain of her nomadic upbringing.
Time 's package backlashes against recent articles ( The New Yorker , Newsweek ) suggesting that parents matter little in a child's upbringing.
Her religious upbringing was easily a match for Rockefeller's, but it manifested itself in a substantially different way.
As Hannah, who grows from spiky prole to uneasy denizen of the middle class, she's the sort of woman who's underrepresented in movies: smart and aggressive and desperately unhappy about the random injustices of her upbringing.