vanguard
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈvænɡɑrd/
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vanguardia
- And I know too, that all of you will be at the vanguard of efforts to make sure the progress for women actually happens.
- vanguard party
- vanguard movement
- role as a vanguard
I think most intellectual vanguards over the years have been mostly white guys.
- I think most intellectual vanguards over the years have been mostly white guys.
- Like you're supposed to be the vanguard of statement like truthfulness and honesty.
- You know, Facebook spent four years building out civic integrity to be that vanguard.
- And the very organizations that we trained that would have been the vanguard are now going to be probably who we have to deal with face to face.
- Enter Raganath Capo, a punk rock vanguard who walked away from a successful music career to Don the robes of a monk.
- But really the goal is how can we make house hack the vanguard of real estate?
Examples
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Many of these physicians are in the vanguard of caring for lower socioeconomic and homeless patients.
Academic text (1996) -
Geffroy was thrilled to get to know the much-admired leader of the Impressionist vanguard.
Academic text (2015) -
Our duty to be in the vanguard of that movement.
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What you see here is only the vanguard, the planning stage.
Academic text (2017) -
I'll remind you we are in the vanguard of research.
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But we are here as a vanguard of a new way of thinking about consumerism.
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Experimenting with new forms of literature as well as drugs, the three friends formed the vanguard of a cultural phenomenon... that would come to be known as the Beat Generation.
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Finally, dozens of "Latino Fringe" districts are on the vanguard of this demographic shift.
Academic text (2008) -
The activists positioned themselves at the vanguard of the environmental movement, advocating for sustainable practices.
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She was always at the vanguard of technology, leading her team in innovative projects.
Synonyms
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4.8
The most important position in an area of work or activity
14
8.2
A group of people who try new and unusual ideas in art, music, or writing
4
4.2
A person who leads and inspires others in a group by example
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5.0
A person leading a movement or attack
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7.2
A person who leads and inspires others in a cause
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9.2
The front part of a moving group, especially of an army
How Leading
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Vanguard comes from the old French phrase avant-garde, where avant means 'before' and guard means 'guard'. So the vanguard is the 'front guard', the people or troops at the 'front', and also the first group to lead a new idea or movement.