How to Use start-up in a Sentence

start-up

noun
  • That start-up approach, move fast and break stuff, had worked.
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Rippling would call this the compound start-up.
    — Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Stacey’s worked at a lot of start-ups, but the latest is most promising.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • At the time, Harris was working at a start-up.
    — Korin Miller, Flow Space, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Being a part of a start-up [Commence] is no joke.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
  • Jane Lauder is betting big on pet start-ups.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2025
  • One Chinese start-up is hoping to change that.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2026
  • And yet today, too many UK start-ups hit a wall at scale.
    — London Business School, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The fast pace and hunger of a start-up setting isn’t lost on Okmanas.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Of course, this is no ordinary sedan, and no start-up restoration house.
    — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 18 June 2024
  • The cost of doing a start-up business is more than ever before.
    — Vogue Runway, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Samii had just spent the night playing poker with tech friends from a start-up company.
    — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2023
  • But this is still a start-up team in a start-up competition backed by immense wealth.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Green steel start-up Stegra is one such company.
    — Andrew Saunders, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
  • In the aftermath, start-ups tried restricting sales of their stock.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • Southeast Asia’s start-up scene is just getting started.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
  • As a start-up high school, it is unaccredited.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • The fund takes minority stakes in promising start-ups.
    — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Nov. 2025
  • At a time when many start-ups seem to go from zero to 10X overnight, that pace can feel glacial.
    — Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Genoa has no flashy tech start-up scene or digital nomads on every corner.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Two in five, or 41%, struggled to access start-up funds to get their business off the ground.
    — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Time management has been a huge part of building this start-up alongside my schoolwork.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 25 May 2023
  • And there has been a pullback of biotech start-ups that have been looking to develop new vaccines.
    — CBS News, 29 June 2025
  • Hence the need for start-ups to scale quickly – and for financial firepower.
    — David Prosser, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The softened start-up keeps the opening from becoming a trigger.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Google’s control of the ads has turned the former garage start-up in to colossal worth close to $2 trillion.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Lumenisity will produce the fibers, a start-up spun out of Southampton.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Armstrong started her blog in 2001 while working at a tech start-up.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 10 May 2023
  • These elements were meant to match the furious energy of a tech start-up.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Australia is home to many cool things, among which is a bright new start-up called On Powersports.
    — New Atlas, 30 Apr. 2025

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