upstart
Example Sentences
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And Alphabet isn’t exactly an upstart competitor, he noted.
From MarketWatch
The upstart Houston Rockets saw their point guard get hurt during the offseason, so they simply decided to use a starting lineup without one.
After Pericles’ death from plague in 429 B.C., rhetorical and political authority is seized by Cleon, an upstart demagogue who is the “most violent person in Athens” and “the most persuasive.”
As soon as he joined the controversial upstart league, Norman became the public face of Saudi Arabia’s billion-dollar effort to lure many of the world’s best golfers away from the PGA Tour.
Its shoppers have been put off by its relatively high prices compared with competitors like Walmart or online upstarts such as Temu and Shein, a dynamic that has been hard to overcome as inflation rises.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
