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forefront

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


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"Backburning was definitely much more at the forefront when I returned in 2024," he says, with Canadian firefighters showing "no hesitation" to include the approach in their operations.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

I wrote a daily newsletter about energy policy at the time, and, in my efforts to be at the forefront of the news, I gobbled up those nuggets as well.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

“When I first developed my menu, I may not have necessarily had that at the forefront of my mind,” Nason said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

"New York has always been at the forefront of innovation and change but we've also always guaranteed that New Yorkers benefit," New York state Governor Kathy Hochul said.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

Delia, upon hearing her twin sister’s question, pushed her way to the forefront to stand between me and Abuelita.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

But what we haven't quite left behind is some expectation of top shelf grandeur that forefronts high style even if that comes at the expense of substance.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2020

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 Putnam, George Palmer




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