upstart
Example Sentences
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An upstart competitor would have to gain access to a customer’s data and organize it.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026
Earlier this week, fans got a glimpse of him swinging a club when he played in the TGL, the upstart league that combines simulator play with live action golf.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
In a series of viral commercials, AI upstart Anthropic broadcast to football fans that they should avoid AI with ads.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
For the former small business adviser from Suffolk, taking a small stake in the upstart beer company from north east Scotland seemed an opportunity too good to miss.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
The primary danger to the whales is a newcomer, an upstart animal, only recently, through technology, become competent in the oceans, a creature that calls itself human.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.