go-getting
Example Sentences
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Denny’s 15-year-old sister, Cissy, a no-nonsense, go-getting “mulish queen,” insists on tagging along and scouring the landscape until her brother is found.
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023
The go-getting entrepreneur had to close her business and was soon spending most of her time on the couch.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2022
“It’s a transparent generation that’s practical, go-getting, tech-oriented and eager to have it all.”
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2017
Commercially successful artists, especially ones who are openly aiming for massive success or who have sustained stardom, tend to be dinged for being go-getting.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2017
I mean I don’t like New York—wouldn’t live there if you gave me the place—but it showed a sort of go-getting spirit.
From The Knights of Arthur by Pohl, Frederik
