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After Maria Sharapova won a Wimbledon tennis tournament, she had her dad pass down his cellphone to her on the court so she could call her mother in Russia in front of the crowd and on camera, a moment of perfect 20th Century techno-upstartness in the hidebound world of tennis.
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Here again clamored the old charge of upstartness.
1492, 1922
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Here again clamored the old charge of upstartness.
1492 Mary Johnston 1903
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Fowley, he ain't half so biddable as he used to be, and now he's passed the standard and can go to work, we shan't live for his pride and upstartness. "
Dick Lionheart Mary Rowles Jarvis
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