upstart

British-born businessmen Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne said they each gave £36 million, equivalent to $48.7 million, to Reform UK to help professionalize the upstart party ahead of the next general election expected by 2029.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil says a lead investor has been secured to keep the upstart tour afloat, and the golfers will be majority equity holders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

While still an upstart compared to AI giants OpenAI or Anthropic, Mistral says it is winning clients by offering models they can run themselves with their own data.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Altruist, founded in 2018, is an upstart competitor to Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments in providing custodial and administrative work to independent financial advisers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Some dictionaries now accept the upstart “to the manor born” as meaning privileged since birth. tongue in cheek.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

The design-software company has struggled to convince investors that its pricing model and artificial-intelligence offerings are enough to compete with cheaper upstarts, and Bank of America’s Tal Liani isn’t optimistic that sentiment will change.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

The man who shockingly demoted then-24-year-old goalkeeper Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa in favor of a more experienced player prior to the 2010 World Cup was now relying on upstarts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Ormat’s market cap is modest compared with shinier energy upstarts, at around $8 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

The debut of Spark, which Google announced at its annual developer’s conference Tuesday, comes as AI upstarts including Anthropic and OpenAI work to make their agents more capable of making choices without explicit human direction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

I go with one of the young English upstarts and choose a slightly exaggerated, magnificently tailored suit that emphasizes my new, waspy figure.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

In an industry where guerrilla tactics pay off, Kahn upstarted the upstarts.

From Time Magazine Archive

With hands hard-clenched The King upstarted: thus his voice rang out: 'Beware, who gave ill counsel to their King!

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere

Instantly upstarted Lyubim Tsarevich, put on his armour, and leapt upon his steed.

From The Russian Garland being Russian Folk Tales by J. R. de Rosciszewski

Roused at one call, upstarted from one bed, Press’d in one crowd, appall’d with one amaze, He turns them o’er, Eternity! to thee.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

XLV From their seats upstarted the lords and all the band; The bear flew into fury; straight gave the king command The hounds to uncouple, and slip them on the prey.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Her wits were like a flock of birds loosed from the cage of her will, alighting here, upstarting there, without let or hindrance.

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

Here! 'tis time you were departing, bird or not," I cried, upstarting; "Get you back unto the Carlton, they on parrot-cries set store.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 23, 1890 by Various

Then excuse me, we'll be parting, doleful fowl," I cried, upstarting; "Get thee back to—the Red River, or the Nile's sand-cumbered shore!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

It was as if you saw a flame upstarting before you, waving tremulously here and there, but burning and resistless in its white heat.

From A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green

Swung to sleep by the swaying water, Only to dream all day— Blow, salt wind from the north upstarting, Scatter such dreams away!

From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Frederic Lawrence Knowles