up-and-comer

Example Sentences

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What if, ask Mr. Chalamet and writer-director Josh Safdie, that sport were a third-tier one that hardly anybody cares about, what if the story wandered off on tangents of tangents, and what if its central figure were really an antihero—not a plucky up-and-comer but a seamy, scheming scammer?

From The Wall Street Journal

Wrestling tradition dictates that big-name stars lose their last match, going out on their back to promote an up-and-comer.

From Salon

Gillian in fact, when I blurbed “Gone Girl” — and now it’s kind of hilarious, it’s like once upon a time, I blurbed this third novel by the up-and-comer Gillian Flynn — she had, as a gift, sent me a copy of the book, “Until the Twelfth of Never,” and it’s the book that inspired the two miniseries based on the Betty Broderick story out of Southern California.

From Salon

While she is an up-and-comer with a handicap that lists her as scratch golfer, placing her in the top 1% of women in the U.S., the American Junior Golf Association lists her 461st among girls.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mobb Deep was one of the first New York rap groups to help establish the Alchemist as an in-demand up-and-comer.

From Los Angeles Times