What does up-and-coming mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. energetic, gumptious, industrious, up-and-comingadjective

    working hard to promote an enterprise

Wiktionary

  1. up-and-comingadjective

    emerging; aspiring; improving; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim

    The theater likes to feature up-and-coming singers and comedians.

ChatGPT

  1. up-and-coming

    Up-and-coming is an adjective used to describe someone who is making progress and shows promise or potential in a particular field or area. It usually refers to someone who is not yet established or well-known but is expected to achieve success in the future. It can also be used to describe areas or places which are growing or developing rapidly and are expected to gain prominence or become popular soon.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of up-and-coming in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of up-and-coming in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of up-and-coming in a Sentence

  1. Senior Savion Flagg:

    Ive been getting a lot more shots up outside of practice and coming into the gym, getting extra work with the coaches, and getting the managers to come help me rebound, just trying to find my touch again.

  2. Andy Pekosz:

    This virus has shown that it mutated slowly, but when it started to pick up good mutations, they just kept coming and coming and coming.

  3. Rory McIlroy:

    I feel like it’s getting tougher and tougher to win on the PGA Tour. Just look at the two guys that I played with today. I went out with a lead and had to shoot 8-under par to get the job done. So the depth of talent on this tour is really, really impressive. And going up against guys like J.T. and Tony and coming out on top, that’s something to feel really good about.

  4. Paul Young:

    The ozone layer problem was simpler than the climate problem. You had a handful of companies who are producing a handful of chemicals for a handful of different uses, and it was relatively straightforward for them to come up with alternatives for that, but this is still a great example of how science, identifying a problem, and the world acting comparatively quickly, acknowledging that problem and coming together to address it, and that is the model that we need to address climate change.

  5. Kyle Connor:

    I scored there to get us back to (within) one and I felt we were just stretching a little bit too much after that. We weren't supporting our defense and coming up as a unit.


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