vanguard
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In the vanguard of the opposition was Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki—the son of a U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
This has also been an incredible front line of the technological vanguard for how war is going to be fought in the future.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Nettles were everywhere, the vanguard of the army.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
From the beginning it was called "the experiment" and the children were referred to as "vanguards", says Mr Jensen.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2022
Five Star members, in power, have struggled to maintain the posture — as truth-telling vanguards against corruption — that fed their rise in popularity.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019
The 18th-century Jesuit Junipero Serra is studied in elementary school curriculums here because of his establishment of missions — vanguards of Spanish Catholicism that shaped the architecture and religious life of California.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2013
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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