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upstart
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    Even with a much more concealing mask, she would have recognized the upstart.†  (source)
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    You desire my throne for your husband, the upstart Osiris.†  (source)
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    They had used her as no more than a means to an end, to make a point to a competitor, an upstart.†  (source)
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    To be uprooted by an upstart forty-three-year-old woman, and English to boot, was intolerable.†  (source)
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    Upstarts from previously unremarkable houses who suddenly find themselves in positions advantageous for business.†  (source)
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    Upstarting, he laid back his ears and eyed her.†  (source)
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    Mindful of being a teenaged upstart in the company of such seasoned track deities as Jesse Owens and Glenn Cunningham, Louie curbed his coltish impulses and began growing a mustache.†  (source)
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    This is an age of upstarts.†  (source)
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    She says to Miss Barry, I hear a certain upstart from the lanes walked away from the post office exam.†  (source)
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    It was just all the upstarts who had turned the world on its head and unsettled the ways of decent living.†  (source)
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    In medical school I have been befriended by an upstart neurologist, who believes I am acting out a great lifelong falsehood.†  (source)
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    These upstarts—the Clarks, the Haydocks—had no dignity.†  (source)
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    She traded her family name and connections for a heap of coin fresh from the mint, and she is more than willing to arrange something of the sort for him: the horse-trading that's becoming increasingly common between impoverished European aristocrats and upstart American millionaires is not unknown, on a much smaller scale, in Loomisville, Massachusetts.†  (source)
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