vanguard
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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
In the years before smartphones and ubiquitous GPS, Mapquest.com was the vanguard of online wayfinding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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
And so an outcast couple, immoral and ungovernable, served as the vanguard for new European settlements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
“Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem...those strange beings who landed in the Jersey farmlands tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from the planet Mars.”
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
Two stars of the internet of 12 to 24 months ago who found themselves at the vanguards of their respective scenes come together for a collaboration in which neither has to concede an inch.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
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
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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