avant-gardist

Definition of avant-gardistnext

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Noun
  • Embrace the slightly dystopian vibe and buy a bag of pellets from one of the old-timey pioneer stores to hand-feed the furry descendants.
    Zoey Goto, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The 1986 season boasted rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Lucy Maguire is Features Director at Vogue Business, writing and commissioning features across all verticals, with a focus on fashion industry moves, international fashion weeks, trends and consumer behaviour, alongside interviews with key designers, founders and executives.
    Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2026
  • But in recent years, they’ve been turned into studios for architects and designers and other creatives whose floor-to-ceiling windows face one another under Chinatown’s bright sky.
    Xuan Juliana Wang, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Nvidia plans to announce a new architecture drawing on Groq at its GTC developer conference in California next week, The Wall Street Journal reported.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The property is one of several at Bishop Ranch where office spaces are expected to be replaced by an array of homes, a key part of a vision crafted by Sunset Development, the principal owner and developer of the neighborhood.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
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“Avant-gardist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avant-gardist. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.

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