front line
Example Sentences
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"Firefighters have been on the front line of climate change for a number of years," Phil Garrigan, of the National Fire Chiefs Council, told BBC Radio.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
This has also been an incredible front line of the technological vanguard for how war is going to be fought in the future.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
As a professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania, she’ll be on the front line of academics condemned to unteach Nolan’s heavily altered screenplay to students who will arrive quoting it chapter and verse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
"Christos naturally operates on the left but is comfortable across the front line," said Arsenal sporting director Andrea Berta.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
And Josiah—if only I had let him continue sleeping on the first day of training, perhaps he wouldn’t have gone to the front line in the first place.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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