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[fawr-fruhnt, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌfrʌnt, ˈfoʊr- /


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The sham thrust to the forefront a growing problem: Law enforcement agencies across the country increasingly are receiving photos and other evidence that’s been manipulated or wholly generated with artificial intelligence, experts say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Londonderry actress and her co-star Katherine Devlin, who also grew up in Northern Ireland, say relationships between police and communities there were at the forefront of their minds as they prepared for filming.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

This week, we profile the 27-year-old who has helped bring long-simmering concerns about the technology’s potential dangers to the forefront.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

This time around, however, he has put himself at the forefront of his party’s campaign for the 450-seat Duma, or lower house of parliament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Delia, upon hearing her twin sister’s question, pushed her way to the forefront to stand between me and Abuelita.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Though it forefronts Schuyler’s central question — Is the goal of racial progress the ennoblement of Blackness or its disappearance into a “chromatic democracy”? — its tone is jumpy and its storytelling lumpy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

"What we've got here is the failure of talks and the president taking action on forefronts to help for discrete groups," Navarro said.

From Fox News ● Aug. 9, 2020

Riddle’s and Salahuddin’s comedy forefronts the farcical nature of economic struggle, but doesn’t hide the rougher aspects of Englewood life.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2019

Indeed, the film’s primary themes are showbiz success and parenting — whether the former creates more problems and the latter often forefronts an inability to solve them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2017

The others will succeed, just as they have succeeded elsewhere on the forefronts of civilization; the pity of it is that their lot may not be made easier, surer.

From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by George Palmer Putnam




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