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forefront

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


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UChicago Medicine and the Biological Sciences Division continue to be at the forefront of cancer care and research.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

With China at the forefront, coast guards are evolving into tools for projecting power in the Western Pacific, marking territory and deterring rivals.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

I had to keep reminding myself, especially at the beginning, to not put those things in the forefront of our minds, unless, of course, like you’re a Pearl girl who has prior knowledge of everything.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Four of them - California, Ohio, Oregon and Pennsylvania - have paused executions through executive actions, as issues of botched executions, discrimination and cost have come to the forefront.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

In the 1964 “long, hot summer” riots in major cities across the United States, the socially disinherited black ghetto youth were always at the forefront.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

But what we haven't quite left behind is some expectation of top shelf grandeur that forefronts high style even if that comes at the expense of substance.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2020

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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