vanguard

The survey identified a subset of respondents that it calls the vanguard, defined as CIOs who are delivering better performance on business outcomes while also reporting high CEO-perceived AI value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The “sparkle” icon was at the vanguard of this trend, a magical-looking diamond that suggested something incredible was behind the door if you just clicked that button.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

In the years before smartphones and ubiquitous GPS, Mapquest.com was the vanguard of online wayfinding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

The vanguard passed through the trenches of fire by many devious paths that had been left between them.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

From the beginning it was called "the experiment" and the children were referred to as "vanguards", says Mr Jensen.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2022

Five Star members, in power, have struggled to maintain the posture — as truth-telling vanguards against corruption — that fed their rise in popularity.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019

Waving rainbow signs and urging love and acceptance, they marched at the front of the line, vanguards of a new movement of Mormons challenging their church’s staunch opposition to homosexuality.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2012

Our present spaceships, with their robot crews, are the harbingers, the vanguards of future human expeditions to the planets.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan