vanguard

Example Sentences

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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who won a landslide victory in an election in February, is in the vanguard of this shift.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 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

After four rounds of layoffs in two years that cut a quarter of its employees, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory now faces a daunting task: reclaiming its place at the vanguard of exploration and innovation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

“Or do we want to be a party that is leading the vanguard to protect workers and to fight for working families?”

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2025

Their host’s father had been a member of the cotton vanguard and a savvy proselytizer of the miracle crop.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead