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.
Recent Examples on the Web
This new majority has turned Huntington Beach into a poster child for Trumpism, and they’re not done: another slate of hard-right candidates is taking on the three remaining Democratic council members in November.
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
By Chad de Guzman April 3, 2024 1:45 AM EDT
South Korea—the world’s poster child for demographic decline—has spent some $280 billion over the past 18 years to address its diminishing birth rate, which recently dropped to a new record-low of 0.72 babies per woman in a lifetime.
—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
By Chad de Guzman April 3, 2024 1:45 AM EDT
South Korea—the world’s poster child for demographic decline—has spent some $280 billion over the past 18 years to address its diminishing birth rate, which recently dropped to a new record-low of 0.72 babies per woman in a lifetime.
—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
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“Poster child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poster%20child. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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