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vanguard

[van-gahrd] / ˈvænˌgɑrd /
NOUN
forefront
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Luis Enrique continues to push the team to be in the vanguard of football which is demanding, with dynamic football and relentless pressure.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Finally, in 1855, he moved to Europe and became part of an exhilarating bohemian culture in Paris and vanguard art world in London.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

This has also been an incredible front line of the technological vanguard for how war is going to be fought in the future.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

She spoke to De Los about her pleasure-seeking ethos and Argentina’s alt-pop vanguard.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

The northmen on their bear-paws soon began to outdistance the rest of the host They overtook the knights in the main column, then Ser Godry Farring and his vanguard.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Two stars of the internet of 12 to 24 months ago who found themselves at the vanguards of their respective scenes come together for a collaboration in which neither has to concede an inch.

From New York Times Dec. 6, 2023

And it found him in the person of Yevgeny Prigozhin, one of those quixotic, improbable adventurers who, over the past two centuries, have served as the vanguards of new forms of empire.

From Salon Oct. 22, 2023

From the beginning it was called "the experiment" and the children were referred to as "vanguards", says Mr Jensen.

From BBC Mar. 9, 2022

Five Star members, in power, have struggled to maintain the posture — as truth-telling vanguards against corruption — that fed their rise in popularity.

From Washington Post Aug. 9, 2019

Our present spaceships, with their robot crews, are the harbingers, the vanguards of future human expeditions to the planets.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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