the vanguard

noun

: the soldiers, ships, etc., that are at the front of a fighting force that is moving forward

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These views were clearly on the vanguard, but other religious rationalists and religious dissenters also advocated a comprehensive understanding of religious freedom. —Steven K. Green, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2024

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Connecticut is in the vanguard of campaign finance reform, so that’s to be expected. —Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 20 May 2024

This exhibition is a testament to Stout’s enduring relevance in a city that prides itself on being the vanguard of the art world. —Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 6 May 2024

But while the house has maintained its focus on the vanguard of newcomers, Phillips’s executive team is also determined not to leave artists of the past (including the likes of Bacon and O’Keeffe) behind. —Angelica Villa For Artnews, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2021

This dynamic made Middle Eastern autocracies extremely durable: in the Arab world, the middle class, which tends to be the vanguard of democracy elsewhere, was at best ambivalent to rule by the people. —Amaney A. Jamal, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013

Cooper’s episode also premieres June 23 and will offer a chronicle of his emergence from the 1960s Detroit rock scene to the vanguard of stage presentation and theatricality while leading the Alice Cooper Group. —Spin Staff, SPIN, 9 June 2024

Fourteen democracy activists in Hong Kong were convicted on Thursday on national security charges, adding to the ranks of dozens of others — once the vanguard of the city’s opposition — who may now become a generation of political prisoners. —Tiffany May, New York Times, 30 May 2024