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)
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She was a stirring speaker and activist and soon became the poster child of the antiwar movement.
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Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago became the poster child for the scourge of urban gun violence in America.
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Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Just ask Suki Waterhouse, the style’s poster child.
—Ana Morales, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
Images from the festival quickly went viral, cementing Fyre as the poster child for influencer excess and internet schadenfreude.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
And of course the poster child for kind of what's structurally going right is the boom in AI and technology more broadly.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Just ask Suki Waterhouse, the style’s poster child.
—Ana Morales, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
Images from the festival quickly went viral, cementing Fyre as the poster child for influencer excess and internet schadenfreude.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
And of course the poster child for kind of what's structurally going right is the boom in AI and technology more broadly.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for poster child
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“Poster child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poster%20child. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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