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vanguard

[van-gahrd] / ˈvænˌgɑrd /
NOUN
forefront
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Luis Enrique continues to push the team to be in the vanguard of football which is demanding, with dynamic football and relentless pressure.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Finally, in 1855, he moved to Europe and became part of an exhilarating bohemian culture in Paris and vanguard art world in London.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

This has also been an incredible front line of the technological vanguard for how war is going to be fought in the future.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

In the vanguard of the latest bull stampede is the semiconductor sector, which is due to get another lift Friday as Intel shares see a big post-earnings-report pop.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026

Whatever was new and exciting—elevators, gas lighting, swimming pools, golf courses—the White Mountain hotels were in the vanguard.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

A progressive capitalist, he nonetheless earned the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America and has joined New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as lefty vanguards and prime think-piece fodder.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

Now Johnson applauds the Greta Thunbergs of the world and the gray-haired greenies as vanguards holding world leaders to account.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2021

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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