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vanguard

[van-gahrd] / ˈvænˌgɑrd /
NOUN
forefront
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She spoke to De Los about her pleasure-seeking ethos and Argentina’s alt-pop vanguard.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 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

If they are the vanguard of a sentient nonhuman enemy, we don’t have much to fear yet.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2026

"In being the industry's vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves and all developers," Sweeney said.

From BBC Mar. 24, 2026

I was among white and Indian intellectuals of my own generation, young men who would form the vanguard of the most important political movements of the next few years.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

For months, Google has preached a more cautious approach to artificial intelligence, even as rivals and the public embraced ChatGPT and other new technologies as vanguards of the future.

From New York Times May 11, 2023

“Fashion designers are like the vanguards of innovation, and I love his clothes,” Biden said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 14, 2023

Mr. Inamori was often placed alongside Sony’s Akio Morita and vehicle-maker Soichiro Honda as the vanguards of Japan’s industrial rebound after World War II to become one of the world’s top economies.

From Washington Post Sep. 3, 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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