advance guard
Example Sentences
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The Kenyans are the advance guard core of a UN-mandated, multinational force that will seek to restore peace to Haiti.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024
At Documenta, ruangrupa first did what it always does: dispatch an advance guard and set up a ruruhouse, or ruruHaus, to be locally specific.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
SNCC, pronounced “snick,” had quickly become a kind of advance guard of the movement, helping organize sit-ins and demonstrations throughout the South.
From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2020
It may be more interested in philosophy than in history: I’m tempted to understand each of Bean’s companions as representing an advance guard of Enlightenment thought.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2018
One route open to the advance guard was to play with the musical possibilities of the surreal and the absurd.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
