leading edge

Example Sentences

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Board of Education was on the leading edge by adopting an on-campus student cellphone ban in June 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Television was also the leading edge of the rising consumer society: an ad-driven medium running all day in American homes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

The first chance offered was a leading edge that flew to deep third man, with Rashid unable to take the catch or flick the ball back inside the rope.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

"It had been assumed that faults follow the leading edge of the subducting slab, but this example deviates from that," Materna said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2026

Over the past 100 million years as it has drifted north toward Asia, its leading edge has sunk by some six hundred feet.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson