poster child
Americannoun
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a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
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a person or thing that exemplifies or represents.
She could be a poster child for good sportsmanship.
Etymology
Origin of poster child
First recorded in 1990–95
Example Sentences
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In India's tech capital Bengaluru, the morning "rush hour" lasts so long it devours half the workday, throttling productivity in a city often viewed as the poster child of a booming economy.
From Barron's
The poster child for that narrative was the semiconductor group.
From Barron's
Palantir, which is something of a poster child for the AI trade, fell 15% from its peak to its bottom Thursday.
From Barron's
There are still some 54 S&P 500 companies on deck to share their results, including major retailer Walmart and AI poster child Nvidia.
As for Pets.com, which ended up as the poster child for dot-com insanity?
From MarketWatch
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