upstart

We are a culture enamored of the child prodigy, the precocious upstart, the tender sprouting genius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

British-born businessmen Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne said they each gave £36 million, equivalent to $48.7 million, to Reform UK to help professionalize the upstart party ahead of the next general election expected by 2029.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil says a lead investor has been secured to keep the upstart tour afloat, and the golfers will be majority equity holders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

While still an upstart compared to AI giants OpenAI or Anthropic, Mistral says it is winning clients by offering models they can run themselves with their own data.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

I move toward the young upstart, and he retreats.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

For those plucky upstarts outside Boston, no football game is ever completely out of reach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The upstarts are now considering raising capital from friends or family investors, or traditional Wall Street firms, to capitalize on the boom in trading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

As high-school math students gear up to buy the newest version of Texas Instruments’ TI-84 graphic calculator, cheaper upstarts are trying to break the company’s decades-old grip on the market.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

The design-software company has struggled to convince investors that its pricing model and artificial-intelligence offerings are enough to compete with cheaper upstarts, and Bank of America’s Tal Liani isn’t optimistic that sentiment will change.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

Masters of power politics, engineers of genius, the Mexica were also upstarts and pretenders, arrivistes who falsely claimed a brilliant line of descent.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

In an industry where guerrilla tactics pay off, Kahn upstarted the upstarts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then labor came next, and the conflict began With monsters and beasts famed in song; And heroes upstarted, as rulers of man, And the weak sought the aid of the strong.

From The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller

Further inside the heart of the city upstarted the intoxications of sin and the terrible beggars with their maimed children.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

After this fashion the Moslems ceased not dashing forwards, one after one, and the Franks to unhorse them and take them captive, till day departed and the night with darkness upstarted.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Instantly upstarted Lyubim Tsarevich, put on his armour, and leaped upon his steed.

From The Russian Garland being Russian Folk Tales by J. R. de Rosciszewski

Then they shook their medicine-pouches O'er the head of Hiawatha, 145Danced their medicine-dance around him; And upstarting wild and haggard, Like a man from dreams awakened, He was healed of all his madness.

From The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He seized the wooden sword, and smote the earth;       When lo! upstarting into birth       A fabric, gorgeous to behold,       Outshone in elegance the old, And Veeshnoo saw, and cried, "Hail, playhouse mine!"

From Rejected Addresses by James Smith

Coxcombs need only lines; their opinions are upstarting islands, held together by nothing but emptiness....

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

Iris, sudden at the gate Appear'd; they, at the sight upstarting all,255 Invited each the Goddess to himself.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper

Hand-clappings, cheers, a stirring of the crowd, and the upstarting of the brass band climaxed the rhetorical peroration, and Elsa glanced anxiously over her shoulder.

From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde