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frontier

[fruhn-teer, fron-, fruhn-teer] / frʌnˈtɪər, frɒn-, ˈfrʌn tɪər /




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She walked away from a job offer at a frontier biotech company and her plans to pursue a Ph.D. in genetics and co-founded a startup building knowledge systems for biolabs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 5, 2026

The 70-year-old was expected to use the half-day trip to the Mediterranean island, a frontier between Africa and Europe, to call for safe and legal pathways for immigration.

From Barron's • Jul. 4, 2026

"Space Force, those guys are literally charting the next frontier of space," he says.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2026

The company said Wednesday that it appreciates the administration’s work on “a durable framework for future frontier model releases.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

Created in the nineteenth century as a volunteer citizen militia to fight American Indians on the frontier and, later, Mexicans along the border, the Rangers had evolved into a kind of state police force.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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