avant-gardist

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Noun
  • The 24,000-square-foot building was erected in 1965 by shopping mall pioneer and developer Ernest Hahn to serve as his corporate headquarters.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
  • And Mighty Real also spotlights under-the-radar but equally important LGBTQ pioneers like Lavender Country and the artists from women’s music label Olivia Records.
    David Chiu, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • This marked the first appearance of an embodied AI robot at a Met Gala pre-event, attracting significant attention from media, designers, and bystanders.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 6 May 2026
  • The designer regularly curates new collections and fresh apparel and is widely known for her signature splits at the end of her runway shows.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • Optics and chemical developers, and aluminum and cement factories, were also hit.
    Amir-Hussein Radjy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Green fertilizer developer Atome will go ahead with a 260,000-ton-per-year plant in Villeta, Paraguay, the first industrial-scale facility of its kind to hit that milestone, CEO Olivier Mussat told Semafor.
    Natasha Bracken, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Avant-gardist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avant-gardist. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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