go-getting
Example Sentences
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“I don’t know that it matters what kind of mom she is,” she said, noting that the go-getting men of prestige television have not been subject to the same critique.
From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023
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
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 Sterling, Bruce
