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poster child

noun as in perfect representative of something

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That multiple is a little more than dot-com poster child Cisco Systems at the peak of the tech bubble in 2000.

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Arbor Energy is, essentially, a poster child of the kind of biomass energy project California keeps saying it wants.

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While he was confined, with no access to his attorneys or the news, Hernández Romero had no idea he had become a poster child for the movement to free the prisoners.

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Amy, who founded sustainable fashion brand Akyn earlier this year, also felt pressure to be a "poster child" for ethical fashion.

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It also reflected a concerted effort by Trump and other prominent conservative figures to single out Hernandez, individually, as an unwitting poster child for such concerns.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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