upstart
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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
Executives have said the truck will feature technology designed to compete with Tesla and upstart Chinese automakers, with a price tag similar to mainstream sedans and SUVs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
Perhaps no company has triggered more AI anxiety during the last year than cloud upstart CoreWeave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
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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
Yet the veterans refuse to surrender to the upstarts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The man who shockingly demoted then-24-year-old goalkeeper Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa in favor of a more experienced player prior to the 2010 World Cup was now relying on upstarts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 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
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In an industry where guerrilla tactics pay off, Kahn upstarted the upstarts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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
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
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
Then had wrath More dreadful, some strange vengeance on the Gods From Jove befallen, had not Minerva, touch'd With timely fears for all, upstarting sprung150 From where she sat, right through the vestibule.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
It was the signal for a general upstarting from the table, a pushing back of chairs, a gathering around Elizabeth Cornish.
From Black Jack by Max Brand
It was as if you saw a flame upstarting before you, waving tremulously here and there, but burning and resistless in its white heat.
From A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green
Presently that clownish person upstarting, desired that adventure; whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gaine-saying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
Then excuse me, we'll be parting, doleful fowl," I cried, upstarting; "Get thee back to—the Red River, or the Nile's sand-cumbered shore!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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