vanguard

noun

van·guard | \ ˈvan-ˌgärd also ˈvaŋ-

Definition of vanguard

1 : the forefront of an action or movement

2 : the troops moving at the head of an army

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Other Words from vanguard

vanguardism \ ˈvan-ˌgär-ˌdi-zəm

also ˈvaŋ- \ noun

vanguardist \ ˈvan-ˌgär-dist

also ˈvaŋ- \ noun

Examples of vanguard in a Sentence

a style of jazz that the vanguard quickly recognized as new and exciting talk radio is often regarded as being in the vanguard of the conservative movement

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During the 1970s, Viola was a vanguard leader experimenting with the relatively new medium of video. — USA TODAY, "Chicago cows, bras for turtles, gold rush: News from around our 50 states," 1 July 2019 Ultimately, Democrats may have overestimated Oregonians’ overall willingness to be at the vanguard of the fight on global climate change. — oregonlive.com, "How Oregon’s climate-change bill ran out of gas," 30 June 2019 Already the vanguard is here, and the officers have laid out their camps and made everything ready for their forces. — Evening Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, "From the Archives: 1924: San Diego hosts Civil War veterans," 9 June 2019 Oak Hill Capital Partners is joining the growing vanguard of private-equity firms looking to data science and artificial intelligence to bolster its operations. — Laura Kreutzer, WSJ, "Oak Hill Capital Adds Two Data Experts to Its Ranks," 6 Feb. 2019 National artistic vanguards tend to come in two types. — The New York Review of Books, "Ratik Asokan," 22 Dec. 2018 But from the ashes of that 2016 mishap came a showdown between the new pioneer of space, SpaceX, versus the old vanguard of the cosmos, NASA. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "SpaceX and NASA Reach Agreement on Astronaut Safety," 20 Aug. 2018 Magic mushrooms, whose active ingredient is psilocybin, are in the vanguard. — The Economist, "Magic mushrooms, illegal in most places, may have therapeutic uses," 7 June 2019 With his wife, Marion Sandler, who died in 2012, Sandler was in the vanguard of untraditional home lending. — Laurence Arnold, latimes.com, "Herbert Sandler, half of couple who built a home-lending giant, dies at 87," 6 June 2019

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