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bring·ing up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringingnoun

    helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

    "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bringing up in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bringing up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of bringing up in a Sentence

  1. Bhanu Arora:

    We were seeing economists bringing up some warning signs, and we were following the Fed signals and that they were becoming more dovish, we wanted to be prepared and ready.

  2. Kim Schrier:

    Our President even tried to tie terrorists from the Middle East with the caravan. It's like bringing up all of these buzzwords that stir up a frenzy in their base, we all teach our kids that we're better than this.

  3. Jane Kakkis:

    You have no idea what fear is until you have a cancer that's already spread to your lymph nodes, patients will say in disbelief, 'but I just had a mammogram and it was normal.' They can't believe how advanced it is. Dense breast notification is bringing up a whole conversation about risk that wouldn't come up otherwise.

  4. John Wilmot:

    Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

  5. Mary Higgins Clark:

    Trust me, you do not make a living selling short stories and bringing up five kids, so I started writing radio scripts for a living, and it actually taught me a great deal about writing. And I was always glad I had the kids. I mean, they were great kids. I always wanted six. I got five.

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