vanguard
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Sumner was a radical Republican on the vanguard of the anti-slavery movement, and as an abolitionist, he was fighting to rewrite the Constitution using Frederick Douglass’ language.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
She spoke to De Los about her pleasure-seeking ethos and Argentina’s alt-pop vanguard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Four years later, women's cricket hit the big time and Beaumont was at the vanguard.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the vanguard of the latest bull stampede is the semiconductor sector, which is due to get another lift Friday as Intel shares see a big post-earnings-report pop.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026
Whatever was new and exciting—elevators, gas lighting, swimming pools, golf courses—the White Mountain hotels were in the vanguard.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
“Fashion designers are like the vanguards of innovation, and I love his clothes,” Biden said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
Mr. Inamori was often placed alongside Sony’s Akio Morita and vehicle-maker Soichiro Honda as the vanguards of Japan’s industrial rebound after World War II to become one of the world’s top economies.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2022
From the beginning it was called "the experiment" and the children were referred to as "vanguards", says Mr Jensen.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2022
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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