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upstart

[uhp-stahrt, uhp-stahrt] / ˈʌpˌstɑrt, ʌpˈstɑrt /


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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

Altruist is an upstart competitor to Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments in providing custodial and administrative work to independent financial advisers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The upstart golf league is playing what could be its final tournament ever as executives scramble to find new investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

In medical school I have been befriended by an upstart neurologist, who believes I am acting out a great lifelong falsehood.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Scale gives a massive edge to one-time upstarts like Vanguard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

Irving will be going up against a bevy of other legal AI upstarts and the major AI developers themselves as well as established firms, each of which have been charting their own futures with AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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

I go with one of the young English upstarts and choose a slightly exaggerated, magnificently tailored suit that emphasizes my new, waspy figure.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

From Time Magazine Archive

With hands hard-clenched The King upstarted: thus his voice rang out: 'Beware, who gave ill counsel to their King!

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere

XLV From their seats upstarted the lords and all the band; The bear flew into fury; straight gave the king command The hounds to uncouple, and slip them on the prey.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

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

Roused at one call, upstarted from one bed, Press’d in one crowd, appall’d with one amaze, He turns them o’er, Eternity! to thee.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

Swung to sleep by the swaying water, Only to dream all day— Blow, salt wind from the north upstarting, Scatter such dreams away!

From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Frederic Lawrence Knowles

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

But now upstarting with affright At noise of man and steed, Away they fly, to left, to right— Of your fair household, father-knight, Methinks you take small heed!

From The Children's Garland from the Best Poets by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

Mrs. Heth, curiously, had been brought down in full flight: perhaps by the force of that wild upstarting, perhaps by the grisly threat about the Cooneys.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison

But his desire to relieve Janet was suddenly lost in an upstarting brood of impulses that took him to the railway station with the smile still upon his lips.

From A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan




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