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golden boy en · NOUN
Meanings
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A young man who has become unusually successful at an early age.
Bill Gates was the golden boy of the software industry in the early 1980s.
On Friday, November 17, 2023, around noon Pacific time, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Silicon Valley’s golden boy, avatar of the generative AI revolution, logged on to a Google Meet to see four of his five board members staring at him.
2025, Karen Hao, Empire of AI, New York City: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
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A favored youth, held in high esteem by others, and for whom there are high hopes.
He was the golden boy of Montana politics.
Forms
Hypernyms
golden child
Relateds
golden girl
Synonyms
child prodigy