fledgling

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Recent Examples of fledgling So while there was awareness in a fledgling hockey community that Gretzky was the verge of something big, the main emphasis was on the home team according to Mike Weaver, a former Mercury News reporter who covered the Sharks. Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2025 This approach is markedly different than the one leveraged by the fledgling movie industry to gain political recognition almost a century ago. Chris Yogerst / Made By History, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025 The fledgling company was Isomorphic Labs, the secretive artificial intelligence life sciences startup spun out of Google DeepMind after one of the biggest biological breakthroughs in the last 50 years. Hayden Field, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025 For fledgling businesses with limited capital, small in-house teams and modest infrastructural capabilities, BPO is an option that can offer a cost-effective and accelerated way to scale their operation. Vidya Plainfield, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fledgling
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fledgling
Noun
  • Long banking career and political novice Carney, who has had a high-profile banking career, is a political outsider who has never held political office.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The ideal approach is to let veterans and novices collaborate, as tech alone cannot capture the human spirit.
    Deepa Nagraj, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Great Escape festival is held on an annual basis every May in the seaside city of Brighton, and spotlights emerging and rising talent from the U.K. and Ireland as well as international newcomers.
    Thomas Smith, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Dickinson, Babygirl actor and a relative newcomer to A-list stardom, will debut his feature film Urchin, about a drifter (Frank Dillane) on the streets of London.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Free instruction is provided for beginners.
    Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Chips and cards are provided, and ongoing open poker play will be available for beginners.
    Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The facility has an on-site training school, which welcomes groups of 10 apprentices at a time and also provides on-the-job training for existing employees, who are 82 percent female and range in age from 18 to 65.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
  • No poaching, only growing Earlier this month, Villasenor started working as a technician apprentice at Gene Butman Ford in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
    Jamie L. LaReau, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Early in the second period, freshman and New York Rangers prospect Ty Henricks then pounced on a Cam Knuble rebound to extend the lead to 3-1.
    Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • There is, for any freshman defenseman really, never mind a kid that is 17 years old in Hockey East.
    Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, the defensive end had three sacks, six quarterback hits and six tackles for loss in Year 2 after posting four sacks, 10 quarterback hits and eight tackles for loss as a rookie.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The win was the first for Holmes as a starter since his rookie season in 2018.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2025

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