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forefront

[fawr-fruhnt, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌfrʌnt, ˈfoʊr- /


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“We have basically a Cold War race with technology, and we cannot allow the premier company at the forefront of this to, in some way, be irresponsible,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

By 2014, Wong, who was then at the forefront of a civil disobedience movement known as the "Umbrella Movement", had already become one of the most recognisable faces of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

"Everybody in politics is so trash. So to see ethical Muslims be at the forefront representing us and showing everybody what we're actually about... it means everything," said micro-influencer Maryam Bozai, 28.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

As the journalists finalized their divorces with their ex-spouses in 2023, reports of a budding romance came to the forefront.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Paula had the air of a real ideologue; she could, Ifemelu imagined, slip easily into anarchy, stand at the forefront of protests, defying the clubs of policemen and the taunts of unbelievers.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Though it forefronts Schuyler’s central question — Is the goal of racial progress the ennoblement of Blackness or its disappearance into a “chromatic democracy”? — its tone is jumpy and its storytelling lumpy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

"What we've got here is the failure of talks and the president taking action on forefronts to help for discrete groups," Navarro said.

From Fox News ● Aug. 9, 2020

Riddle’s and Salahuddin’s comedy forefronts the farcical nature of economic struggle, but doesn’t hide the rougher aspects of Englewood life.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2019

Indeed, the film’s primary themes are showbiz success and parenting — whether the former creates more problems and the latter often forefronts an inability to solve them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2017

The others will succeed, just as they have succeeded elsewhere on the forefronts of civilization; the pity of it is that their lot may not be made easier, surer.

From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by George Palmer Putnam


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