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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Nvidia has become the poster child for the AI boom, with the pervasiveness of its AI chips and platforms propelling it to briefly become the world’s first $5 trillion company last year.
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
After back-to-back nice games, Elliott was back to being gap-unsound and driven back repeatedly — Seahawks rookie left guard Grey Zabel had a field day against 92, who is merely the poster child for the entire 49ers’ defensive tackle group Saturday.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026
Soto, who is now pursuing a legal career after four decades in prison, is in some ways the poster child for exonerees who can take their life back.
—Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
The broken fountains have been something of a poster child for the federal government’s neglect of parkland in the city.
—Olivia George, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2026
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
After back-to-back nice games, Elliott was back to being gap-unsound and driven back repeatedly — Seahawks rookie left guard Grey Zabel had a field day against 92, who is merely the poster child for the entire 49ers’ defensive tackle group Saturday.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026
Soto, who is now pursuing a legal career after four decades in prison, is in some ways the poster child for exonerees who can take their life back.
—Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
The broken fountains have been something of a poster child for the federal government’s neglect of parkland in the city.
—Olivia George, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2026
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“Poster child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poster%20child. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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