at the vanguard

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: in the position of the leaders of an action or movement in society, politics, art, etc.

They are at the vanguard of a revolution in medical research.

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Spaeth, who was visiting from western Washington, is at the vanguard of the tracking revolution. —

Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024 The shape of things to come is suggested by mind-bending projections for countries at the vanguard of tomorrow’s depopulation: places with abidingly low birthrates for over half a century and favorable life expectancy trends. —

Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024 Since its launch in 2009, Forbes India has been at the vanguard of entrepreneurship and innovation. —

Forbes Press Releases, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024 Europe has long been at the vanguard of AI innovation, giving rise to success stories such as Hugging Face, Mistral AI, and Aleph Alpha (which last year raised one of the continent’s largest AI funding rounds ever). —

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