poster child

noun

: a child who has a disease and is pictured in posters to solicit funds for combating the disease

: 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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Here, the Founding Father is a veritable poster child for irrepressible curiosity and joyful problem-solving. —

Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2024 Simply put, Halloween is the definitive poster child of the slasher film. —

Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024 Yes, but: Despite the GLP-1 effect, Smuckers took a bet on junk-food poster child Hostess in 2023. —

Richard Collings, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024 Topline Nvidia stock has much more room to run up its all-time high share price set this week, argue Bank of America analysts, who just meaningfully upped their price target for the artificial intelligence poster child Nvidia due to a highly favorable growth horizon. —

Derek Saul, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for poster child