advance guard
Example Sentences
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The Kenyans are the advance guard core of a UN-mandated, multinational force that will seek to restore peace to Haiti.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
At Documenta, ruangrupa first did what it always does: dispatch an advance guard and set up a ruruhouse, or ruruHaus, to be locally specific.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
SNCC, pronounced “snick,” had quickly become a kind of advance guard of the movement, helping organize sit-ins and demonstrations throughout the South.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020
It may be more interested in philosophy than in history: I’m tempted to understand each of Bean’s companions as representing an advance guard of Enlightenment thought.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2018
Then, when the position was prepared, the six kings of the advance guard were to retire through it, leaving Lot in the front line while they reformed.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
