vanguard

In the years before smartphones and ubiquitous GPS, Mapquest.com was the vanguard of online wayfinding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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

Four years later, women's cricket hit the big time and Beaumont was at the vanguard.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Kudryashev’s short stint last year in the vanguard of Russia’s army offers a glimpse of the tactics that Russia is employing to eke out battlefield advances in Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

The second day the host made twenty-four, as their vanguard passed beyond tire Glover lands into the thick of the wdlfswood.

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

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

The 18th-century Jesuit Junipero Serra is studied in elementary school curriculums here because of his establishment of missions — vanguards of Spanish Catholicism that shaped the architecture and religious life of California.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2013

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

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan