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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With a severe housing crisis throttling many big U.S. cities, the Austrian capital has emerged as a poster child for what a more robust public housing sector could look like.
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Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
The deal is a poster child for the the growing pains that the digital health sector has run into after a rapid rise during the Covid era.
—Kaitlin Balasaygun, CNBC, 10 June 2025
Recently, New York has emerged as a poster child for profligate Medicaid expansion.
—Mark Mix, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
For decades, its downtown was a poster child for urban blight that many locals avoided.
—Ginanne Brownell, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
The deal is a poster child for the the growing pains that the digital health sector has run into after a rapid rise during the Covid era.
—Kaitlin Balasaygun, CNBC, 10 June 2025
Recently, New York has emerged as a poster child for profligate Medicaid expansion.
—Mark Mix, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
For decades, its downtown was a poster child for urban blight that many locals avoided.
—Ginanne Brownell, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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“Poster child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poster%20child. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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