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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The poster child for this world is a waifish, wavy-haired 20-year-old who goes by the name Clavicular.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
The poster child for that sort of place— still small, but growing fast — is Star, Moyle’s hometown.
—Mark Dee
march 25, Idaho Statesman, 25 Mar. 2026
Contemporary buttermilk is a poster child for the importance of choosing ingredients with care.
—Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
My favorite poster child for this is NASA’s in-development Power and Propulsion Element, which has a 60-kilowatt power system that its onboard propulsion system could use to push an 18,000-kilogram spacecraft to the moon using less than 3,000 kg of propellant.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
The poster child for that sort of place— still small, but growing fast — is Star, Moyle’s hometown.
—Mark Dee
march 25, Idaho Statesman, 25 Mar. 2026
Contemporary buttermilk is a poster child for the importance of choosing ingredients with care.
—Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
My favorite poster child for this is NASA’s in-development Power and Propulsion Element, which has a 60-kilowatt power system that its onboard propulsion system could use to push an 18,000-kilogram spacecraft to the moon using less than 3,000 kg of propellant.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
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“Poster child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poster%20child. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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