rising star
Example Sentences
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Rising star Tshepang Moremi gave South Africa an early lead with a deflected effort.
From Barron's
One irony of Gerstner’s career was that he won the top IBM job that at one time seemed within the grasp of his older brother, Richard Gerstner, who was a rising star at the computer company until Lyme disease sidelined him.
But Lynn turned Penn State down, and USC, in turn, gave its rising star coach a significant raise.
From Los Angeles Times
Her divorce filings say she returned to Pinetop to help her ailing parents, but the hardscrabble town 7,000 feet high in Arizona’s eastern White Mountains is also where she was once considered a rising star, where culture is steeped in tradition and religion, and where familial bonds are staked in blood ties.
From Los Angeles Times
Among them: Dhivya Suryadevara, a high-profile finance chief in 2020, Dan Ammann, Barra’s former No. 2 in 2021, and Marissa West, a rising star who left last year just eight months after joining GM’s senior leadership team.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
