spearhead
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Hölzl moved to San Francisco earlier this year to spearhead the company’s U.S. expansion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Meta sunk $14.3 billion into Scale AI, in order to buy Wang into its ecosystem and spearhead its artificial intelligence lab.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
EU social democrat lawmaker Rene Repasi, who will spearhead negotiations with European capitals on a final version of the law, has already included a raft of worker-friendly proposals in his draft report.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Mookie Betts stayed hot with his bases-loaded, two-run single off Padres starter Michael King to spearhead a three-run rally in the fifth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
At the very end was a small spearhead.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Known as magnetofossils, the microscopic structures come in shapes resembling spearheads, spindles, bullets, and needles.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The empire’s signature advance for 1944, though not stopped, had been slowed, its spearheads blunted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
There may never be a better chance to snap the long winless streak with the hosts' pace spearheads Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood injured and out of at least the first Test.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
“Dreamgirls” director Bill Condon spearheads this new take.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
How is it that we now have intercontinental missiles with nuclear warheads, whereas 30,000 years ago we had only sticks with flint spearheads?
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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The explosion in interest in women's football during the past five years has been spearheaded by two of the biggest broadcasters in the UK – Sky Sports and the BBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Many of the enormous projects spearheaded by Prince Mohammed are stalled or under review.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
He also spearheaded a $215-million fundraising campaign, and helped grow GBH’s assets from around $225 million to $1 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The exit was said to have been spearheaded by Teasdale's father who "essentially gave up his career" to help his son fulfil his potential, Roberts says.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Minimalism had in fact begun to emerge, rather quietly, in the 1960s, but it made a louder entrance in the 1970s, spearheaded by American composers Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Disney Entertainment Television chairman Debra OConnell, who reports to Walden, is spearheading the plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Kusmirek’s work includes spearheading a social-media strategy for Nooks, a company that uses AI to help clients generate sales leads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Ghana has been spearheading a global campaign for institutions and nations across the world that benefitted from the slave trade to pay reparations.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The two will be working on the development of Meow Wolf New York, which is slated to open some time after Los Angeles, and are collaborating on a planned animated series, which Prynoski is spearheading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Almost overnight the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade was in full flower, and Captain Black was enraptured to discover himself spearheading it.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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