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vanguard

[van-gahrd] / ˈvænˌgɑrd /
NOUN
forefront
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“Or do we want to be a party that is leading the vanguard to protect workers and to fight for working families?”

From Salon

New Mexico’s efforts put it at the vanguard of a popular, but expensive, concept on the left.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s one thing for equity markets to suffer a general pullback. But it’s quite another to see stocks at the vanguard of AI development getting trashed,” he added.

From Barron's

An internal university email from August of that year, seen by the BBC, said China's foreign ministry had issued a statement "denouncing us as being in the 'disreputable vanguard of anti-China rhetoric'".

From BBC

As a result, an institution with an illustrious record of solving the hardest problems in space now faces a daunting task here on Earth: reclaiming its place at the vanguard of exploration and innovation.

From Los Angeles Times