vanguard
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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
Opposition lawmakers have blamed French President Emmanuel Macron for failing to replace the country’s 12 Canadair planes, which are decades old and serve as the vanguard of its aerial firefighting response.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Four years later, women's cricket hit the big time and Beaumont was at the vanguard.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
All attention was arrested by the man who rode vanguard.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
A progressive capitalist, he nonetheless earned the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America and has joined New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as lefty vanguards and prime think-piece fodder.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
It’s long been my after-midnight-at-the-bar theory that when it comes to urban cultural vanguards, the Michael Jordan era belongs in the pantheon.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
“Fashion designers are like the vanguards of innovation, and I love his clothes,” Biden said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 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
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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