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- adjective
Promotional ; acting as or like abooster for a particular community or group
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Examples
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So I think a lot of histories, a lot of schools or fields of history begin with a kind of boosterish phase.
Bookslut 2009
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So I think a lot of histories, a lot of schools or fields of history begin with a kind of boosterish phase.
Blog of a Bookslut 2009
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Others are less boosterish, including Juan De Lara, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California who's studied the logistics industry in the region.
The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse 2011
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Of course, America's small-town papers aren't all crusaders; on the contrary, many are little more than boosterish advertising vehicles whose motto might be lifted from Harold Starr, the editor of the Herald-Star in Garrison Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon.
The Reporter Next Door Daniel Akst 2011
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Everywhere the author turns his gaze — from bumper stickers that boast about "my kid the honor-roll student" to boosterish "employee of the month" awards — Mr. Best sees a proliferation of prizes that seems to arise from a desperate desire to exclude fewer and fewer people from the winner's podium.
Why We're All Above Average Sam Schulman 2011
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To help make the case that Newark was the ideal locale for the 13th Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Festival, which begins Thursday and concludes Sunday, self-proclaimed poetry lover Lawrence P. Goldman put together an unabashedly boosterish proposal for the foundation's board of trustees.
Poetry Fest Lures The World's Best Joanne Kaufman 2010
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They take a boosterish, let's go get 'em approach to rallying their new staffs, which falls flat, he says, because technical people aren't motivated that way.
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It was a civic-boosterish, quaint and warm affair.
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It was a civic-boosterish, quaint and warm affair.
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But Brinkley also says that Luce's most crucial influence - during what Luce himself memorably called The American Century - was his magazines 'boosterish promotion of an upbeat, abundant American way of life.
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