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.
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So more of that, and less of me trying to be a poster child for anything except Broadway.
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H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
The poster child of the AI boom, Nvidia, fell 5.7%, and Broadcom lost 6.3% ahead of the release of its earnings report.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025
That hasn’t happened yet (the recent, and global, inflation event had complex causes, and price stabilization is not expected overnight — no matter who’s the president), and the poster child for stubbornly high prices has become the humble egg.
—Alicia Wallace and Matt Stiles, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
Housing is the poster child for the economic slowdown.
—Robert Barone, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
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H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
The poster child of the AI boom, Nvidia, fell 5.7%, and Broadcom lost 6.3% ahead of the release of its earnings report.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025
That hasn’t happened yet (the recent, and global, inflation event had complex causes, and price stabilization is not expected overnight — no matter who’s the president), and the poster child for stubbornly high prices has become the humble egg.
—Alicia Wallace and Matt Stiles, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
Housing is the poster child for the economic slowdown.
—Robert Barone, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Poster child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poster%20child. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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