front rank

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Mandelson had his front-rank political career resurrected three times subsequently: as an EU commissioner; as business secretary and de facto deputy prime minister to Gordon Brown in 2009, and as ambassador to Washington in 2025.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

"She had to be young so you could have lots of children, she had to be Protestant, she had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin."

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2023

With more than 200 works, and a core group of 133 drawings by the beyond-famous artist — the largest number ever assembled — on loan from some 50 front-rank collections, it’s a curatorial coup.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017

“The front-rank Republican candidates are going to have to have some carbon mitigation proposal at some point,” Bledsoe said.

From Scientific American • Aug. 7, 2015

Before to-day I’ve been in the rear rank and had a screen of front-rank men to cover up any 83 blunders I might make, but being in the first file gave me stage fright.

From Conscript 2989 Experiences of a Drafted Man by Crump, Irving