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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Kudzu is a great poster child of showing what an invasive plant species has the capability of doing.
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Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 10 Dec. 2025
The poster child is the state’s most ambitious technology project, called the Financial Information System for California, or FI$Cal for short, launched in 2005 as a one-stop application for managing state finances.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
The poster child is the state’s most ambitious technology project, called the Financial Information System for California, or FI$Cal for short, launched in 2005 as a one-stop application for managing state finances.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
The poster child is central midfielder and captain Jeppe Tverskov, who came from Right to Dream sister club FC Nordsjaelland in Denmark.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2025
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Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 10 Dec. 2025
The poster child is the state’s most ambitious technology project, called the Financial Information System for California, or FI$Cal for short, launched in 2005 as a one-stop application for managing state finances.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
The poster child is the state’s most ambitious technology project, called the Financial Information System for California, or FI$Cal for short, launched in 2005 as a one-stop application for managing state finances.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
The poster child is central midfielder and captain Jeppe Tverskov, who came from Right to Dream sister club FC Nordsjaelland in Denmark.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 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 12 Dec. 2025.
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