poster child
noun
1
: a child who has a disease and is pictured in posters to solicit funds for combating the disease
2
: a person having a public image that is identified with something (such as a cause)
Examples of poster child in a Sentence
She was a stirring speaker and activist and soon became the poster child of the antiwar movement.
Recent Examples on the Web
By Chad de Guzman April 3, 2024 1:45 AM EDT
South Korea—the world’s poster child for demographic decline—has spent some $280 billion over the past 18 years to address its diminishing birth rate, which recently dropped to a new record-low of 0.72 babies per woman in a lifetime.
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Chad De Guzman, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
Fairfax has become one of the nation’s top beaver evangelists, gaining fans with her stop-motion animation video showing how beaver wetlands can slow the intensity of wildfire, and for her concept of Smokey the Beaver as a counterpart to the Fire Service’s ursine poster child for fire suppression.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
New York Community Bank (NYCB) is perhaps the poster child for how CRE’s issues can impact banks.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
Nvidia is undoubtedly the poster child for artificial intelligence.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
Berkeley, where residents first voted to regulate rents in the 1970s, has long been a poster child for rent control.
—Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
Related article Senegal was Africa’s poster child for democracy.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
The rare Windex-blue colored gem was discovered in the Brazilian state of Paraíba in 1989 and has since become a poster child for appreciating value in the gem industry.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
Successfully negotiating union contracts at the company, an iconic brand in a largely nonunion industry that under Schultz had become a poster child for resisting organizing, could help galvanize many more campaigns.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
Chad De Guzman, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
Fairfax has become one of the nation’s top beaver evangelists, gaining fans with her stop-motion animation video showing how beaver wetlands can slow the intensity of wildfire, and for her concept of Smokey the Beaver as a counterpart to the Fire Service’s ursine poster child for fire suppression.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
New York Community Bank (NYCB) is perhaps the poster child for how CRE’s issues can impact banks.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
Nvidia is undoubtedly the poster child for artificial intelligence.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
Berkeley, where residents first voted to regulate rents in the 1970s, has long been a poster child for rent control.
—Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
Related article Senegal was Africa’s poster child for democracy.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
The rare Windex-blue colored gem was discovered in the Brazilian state of Paraíba in 1989 and has since become a poster child for appreciating value in the gem industry.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
Successfully negotiating union contracts at the company, an iconic brand in a largely nonunion industry that under Schultz had become a poster child for resisting organizing, could help galvanize many more campaigns.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
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“Poster child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poster%20child. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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