adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an up-and-coming Broadway actor
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an award for the best up-and-coming comic actress
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Many up-and-coming young players have trials for the national football team.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An up-and-coming composer would probably welcome the opportunity to write music in a religious idiom.
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But Arnold Thomas smelled a bigger profit from the up-and-coming developers who were looking to build back-to-backs for the mill-workers.
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Henry Fitzhugh aims for a deliberate mix of obscure or up-and-coming artists with the glitterati of the art world.
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It is an opportunity to expand the responsibilities of John Langley, an up-and-coming salesman getting some great results in the north.
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Live work for an up-and-coming artist is vital.
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Susannah York was a young up-and-coming leading lady who had a major part in the film.
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The role of Elaine Robinson went to the pretty, auburn-haired, hazel-eyed 25-year-old Katharine Ross, an up-and-coming star.