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spearhead
verb as in lead, start
Strong matches
bring, cause, direct, guide, head, helm, influence, introduce, motivate, move, originate, persuade, pioneer, produce, quarterback, shepherd
Weak matches
bring on, get the jump on, go out in front, run things, trail-blaze
Example Sentences
California became the first state in the nation last year to offer healthcare to all low-income undocumented immigrants, an expansion spearheaded by Newsom.
Britain's flagship polar research vessel heads to Antarctica next week to help advance dozens of climate change-linked science projects, as Western nations spearhead studies there while the United States withdraws.
“It really looks like all of these components are important, and the whole is more than the sum of its parts,” says Jonathan Matzinger, who helped spearhead the research in Bern.
Those efforts have accelerated as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spearheaded a push for deeper changes, in a bid to tackle Americans’ chronic health problems.
For Gabriel, who was first elected in 2018, the Real Food, Healthy Kids Act marks the third food-related law he has spearheaded.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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