vanguard

Example Sentences

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“Or do we want to be a party that is leading the vanguard to protect workers and to fight for working families?”

From Salon

California has a history of being at the vanguard when it comes to environmental policy, setting the pace that is often followed by the federal government.

From New York Times

“Given the state of affairs, especially in Texas, which is sort of at the right-wing vanguard, there’s never been a more urgent need for The Texas Observer,” Mr. Arana said in an interview.

From New York Times

After 200 years at the industry’s vanguard, Britannica might have played the arrival of home computing a little more shrewdly.

From Washington Post

For their part, pro-slavery Southerners had long rehearsed their own conspiracy against what they viewed as the religious zealots in the vanguard of abolitionism, whom they called the “Black Republicans.”

From New York Times