start-up
noun
variants
or startup
often attributive
1
: the act or an instance of setting in operation or motion
2
: a fledgling business enterprise
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SpaceX, the world’s biggest space company, announced a deal in April with Cursor, an AI-code-writing start-up based in San Francisco, signaling the rocket firm’s intention to acquire it for $60 billion.
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Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 4 May 2026
At Deming’s fund, Halioua sat in on start-up pitches and broadened her view of the longevity industry.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
What Roth was wrong about—that athletes are undergoing even newer and more extreme experimental treatments like gene therapies—encapsulated the seductive power of the biohacking world and its natural overlap with that of tech start-ups.
—Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026
The pandemic had negative implications for start-up sports leagues such as the XFL, which canceled midseason and shuttered the league after filing for bankruptcy.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
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Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 4 May 2026
At Deming’s fund, Halioua sat in on start-up pitches and broadened her view of the longevity industry.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
What Roth was wrong about—that athletes are undergoing even newer and more extreme experimental treatments like gene therapies—encapsulated the seductive power of the biohacking world and its natural overlap with that of tech start-ups.
—Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026
The pandemic had negative implications for start-up sports leagues such as the XFL, which canceled midseason and shuttered the league after filing for bankruptcy.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
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“Start-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/start-up. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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