upstart

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

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

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

The usual pronunciation is UR, but the upstart AIR, long considered a mistake, is now acceptable too.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

Regulation typically hurts upstarts, so OpenAI may be hoping to build a regulatory moat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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

Because the least valued oil leases were offered first, the barons usually lingered in the back, leaving the initial bidding to upstarts.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

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

And in this:— "Ghastly amazement! with upstarted hair, Shall hurry on before, and usher us, Whilst trumpets clamor with a sound of death."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various

The thrush, upstarting in the distant dell, Shook its brown wing, with golden streaks array’d, And ap’d the witch-notes, as they rose and fell.

From Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces by George Henry Borrow

Then they shook their medicine-pouches O'er the head of Hiawatha, 145Danced their medicine-dance around him; And upstarting wild and haggard, Like a man from dreams awakened, He was healed of all his madness.

From The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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