Up-and-coming in a sentence as an adjective

Is anyone else as impressed as I am that Teller remembered the name of an up-and-coming magician they met after a show more than a year earlier?

I think Nuclear Fusion is the single most exciting up-and-coming technology.

You're confusing up-and-coming, meaning "showing promise", with upcoming, meaning "forthcoming".

As a teenager, my drama-IQ was not so low that I entirely missed the major storyline that Riker gets in that story about his career as he is challenged by the up-and-coming Shelby, but I certainly see it much more clearly and with far more nuance now.

It may give us a voyeuristic fascination on something that is depicted as an internal intrigue within a prominent up-and-coming startup but this is fundamentally company confidential information that is not capable of being aired publicly without significant distortion.

Up-and-coming definitions

adjective

working hard to promote an enterprise

See also: energetic gumptious industrious