rising star

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Now he was bringing wild-sounding allegations against his former co-worker Lorna Hajdini, seen as a rising star at JPMorgan.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

And thanks to the latest impressive turn from rising star David Jonsson, “Wasteman” even finds a few new notes to play within a familiar stark melody.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Bristol's 19-year-old rising star Demelza Short will make her debut in the back row, while Gloucester-Hartpury's Emma Sing, a long-range kicking option, comes in at full-back.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Fairfax was once considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, after he was elected Virginia’s lieutenant governor in 2017, making him only the second African American elected to statewide office.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

In 1795 a selection of bones made their way to Paris, where they were examined by the rising star of paleontology, the youthful and aristocratic Georges Cuvier.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson