front line
Example Sentences
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During the Vietnam War, the embedded news media was allowed to report from the front lines.
From Salon
In Kamchatka, a peninsula located almost 4,500 miles from the front lines in Ukraine that hasn’t been struck by drones, the regional governor has appealed to Moscow to lift the restrictions.
To do that, they have taken more than 8,000 soil samples, many of them from fields still near the front line of the war.
From BBC
Los Angeles might not be the front line for Operation Epic Fury.
"The battlefield is large, so you've got to be able to get cheap but capable ISR at quantity on the front line," said Chamberlain.
From Barron's
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