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up-and-coming

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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?

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Quick take

working hard to promote an enterprise

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

working hard to promote an enterprise

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for up-and-coming.

Example sentences

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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?

2

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

3

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

4

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.

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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.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use up-and-coming in a sentence?

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?

What does up-and-coming mean?

working hard to promote an enterprise

What part of speech is up-and-coming?

up-and-coming is commonly used as adjective.