front line
Example Sentences
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The plant -- which is close to the front line of the war -- has repeatedly suffered power cuts, with emergency diesel generators providing power for crucial cooling functions.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 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
Open-source research outlet Black Bird Group says Russia has made some of its smallest gains this summer since the start of the war, while Ukraine has launched counterattacks along other areas of the front line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
Ayesha and her father, Suraya, and Khadijah auntie join me in the front line, walking forward, and the others follow.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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