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upstart

noun as in newly rich

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For those who prefer more modern upstarts, look no further than the Houston Texans, who only started competing in the NFL in 2002.

From BBC

While Weyland-Yutani has sought its answer in space and its aliens, an upstart company named Prodigy has created a hybrid being by transferring the consciousness of a child into a synthetic, suped-up adult body.

From Salon

As legacy news brands turn to podcasters to court online audiences, another digital media upstart has been invited to sit at the grown-ups table.

But the C-SPAN legacy is not so meaningful to the upstart streaming services that have a growing number of customers who have never had a traditional pay TV subscription.

In comparison, New York is the young upstart, and we really liked the juxtaposition of the old, the tradition, the steeped in history, versus the new rule breakers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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