grew
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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"We never saw the Lagos I grew up with on screen," he says.
From BBC
Sam decided that when he grew up, he would be a moving man, so that he could have tattoos.
From Literature
He’s drawn parallels to Geico, the auto insurer that Berkshire Hathaway invested and then grew into a leader in the industry.
From MarketWatch
“Just because I grew up idolizing a lot of those guys.”
From Los Angeles Times
He grew up in Poland and holds a master’s degree from the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow.
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