vanguard
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This type of fraud was costing taxpayers billions of pounds a year and experts like Stone were at the vanguard of the fightback.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Sumner was a radical Republican on the vanguard of the anti-slavery movement, and as an abolitionist, he was fighting to rewrite the Constitution using Frederick Douglass’ language.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Opposition lawmakers have blamed French President Emmanuel Macron for failing to replace the country’s 12 Canadair planes, which are decades old and serve as the vanguard of its aerial firefighting response.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
She spoke to De Los about her pleasure-seeking ethos and Argentina’s alt-pop vanguard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
“Possible,” he said, “but we’ll have to go into the valley. We’ll be in the middle of the Horned King’s vanguard if we do.”
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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And it found him in the person of Yevgeny Prigozhin, one of those quixotic, improbable adventurers who, over the past two centuries, have served as the vanguards of new forms of empire.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2023
“Fashion designers are like the vanguards of innovation, and I love his clothes,” Biden said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
These may be especially severe cases, but they are vanguards to a global trend.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
From the beginning it was called "the experiment" and the children were referred to as "vanguards", says Mr Jensen.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2022
Our present spaceships, with their robot crews, are the harbingers, the vanguards of future human expeditions to the planets.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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