the vanguard
noun
: the soldiers, ships, etc., that are at the front of a fighting force that is moving forward
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This must’ve been a dream for someone whose personal style—if not his work—betrays the longing of a hippie born too late (in 1967), and in the wrong place to have been part of the vanguard of the first peace and love trippers.
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Sarah Mower, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2025
Song Zhongping, a former PLA instructor and military commentator, told Chinese media the aircraft could act as the vanguard of an assault on Taiwan, forcing the island to expend expensive interceptors such as the Patriot and Taiwan’s indigenous Tien Chien-2 missiles.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
What may be surprising is that a brand well-known as a trailblazer in consumer payments was also the vanguard of the commercial payments industry.
—Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, are amid the vanguard of innovators now imagining next-gen telecom networks in the atmosphere, the stratosphere, and orbit.
—Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2025
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Sarah Mower, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2025
Song Zhongping, a former PLA instructor and military commentator, told Chinese media the aircraft could act as the vanguard of an assault on Taiwan, forcing the island to expend expensive interceptors such as the Patriot and Taiwan’s indigenous Tien Chien-2 missiles.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
What may be surprising is that a brand well-known as a trailblazer in consumer payments was also the vanguard of the commercial payments industry.
—Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, are amid the vanguard of innovators now imagining next-gen telecom networks in the atmosphere, the stratosphere, and orbit.
—Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2025
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