upstart
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Even after leaving the upstart circuit, the former Masters champion still doesn’t have a clear path back to the PGA Tour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
We are a culture enamored of the child prodigy, the precocious upstart, the tender sprouting genius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Many of them are upstart traders who have ways to use artificial-intelligence tools in trading and markets, deploying teams of bots that monitor minuscule price movements across venues and even place trades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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
Temple was a man of noble family, who treated the upstart Wotton with barely concealed disdain.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Under pressure from Chinese upstarts, the company saw an 8% drop in net GLP-1 sales in China in 2025 and lowered the list price of two such products in that market earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
As high-school math students gear up to buy the newest version of Texas Instruments’ TI-84 graphic calculator, cheaper upstarts are trying to break the company’s decades-old grip on the market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Palantir’s CEO taps into Corporate America’s angst about the growing power of AI upstarts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
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
Masters of power politics, engineers of genius, the Mexica were also upstarts and pretenders, arrivistes who falsely claimed a brilliant line of descent.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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In an industry where guerrilla tactics pay off, Kahn upstarted the upstarts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
Instantly upstarted Lyubim Tsarevich, put on his armour, and leaped upon his steed.
From The Russian Garland being Russian Folk Tales by J. R. de Rosciszewski
And in this:— "Ghastly amazement! with upstarted hair, Shall hurry on before, and usher us, Whilst trumpets clamor with a sound of death."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
And the hard rocks upstarted From the sand make the couch where he lies, Thy Krishna, sad-hearted.
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
Mrs. Heth, curiously, had been brought down in full flight: perhaps by the force of that wild upstarting, perhaps by the grisly threat about the Cooneys.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
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
Then had wrath More dreadful, some strange vengeance on the Gods From Jove befallen, had not Minerva, touch'd With timely fears for all, upstarting sprung150 From where she sat, right through the vestibule.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
But now upstarting with affright At noise of man and steed, Away they fly, to left, to right— Of your fair household, father-knight, Methinks you take small heed!
From The Children's Garland from the Best Poets by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
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