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Whether or not LIV survives beyond this weekend, what’s left will bear little resemblance to the free-spending upstart that stormed onto the scene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

He said that polling conducted by upstart organizations is not necessarily bad, but that the people conducting it don’t necessarily have the training or expertise of more established outfits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Because if the Panthère ring is the established icon, the Panthère sunglasses are the fresh upstart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Like pickleball, padel has its own professional circuit, which includes the upstart Pro Padel League.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Mindful of being a teenaged upstart in the company of such seasoned track deities as Jesse Owens and Glenn Cunningham, Louie curbed his coltish impulses and began growing a mustache.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

Instead, many chose self-proclaimed upstarts from opposite ends of the political spectrum: Republican reality TV star Spencer Pratt and democratic socialist City Councilmember Nithya Raman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

Understanding what any upstarts are up against can help, though.

From Barron's ● May 18, 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

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

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

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

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

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

Presently that clownish person, upstarting, desired that adventure: whereat the Queene much wondering, and the lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire.

From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot

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

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

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

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