go-getting
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Denny’s 15-year-old sister, Cissy, a no-nonsense, go-getting “mulish queen,” insists on tagging along and scouring the landscape until her brother is found.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
“It’s a transparent generation that’s practical, go-getting, tech-oriented and eager to have it all.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2017
Commercially successful artists, especially ones who are openly aiming for massive success or who have sustained stardom, tend to be dinged for being go-getting.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2017
"We're quite an independent go-getting lot in Essex and we really don't see ourselves as being part of Europe," he says.
From BBC ● May 18, 2016
Attorney's office in Chicago had a tight relation with the Secret Service, especially go-getting Chicago-based agent Timothy Foley.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
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