as in progressive
being or employing the latest concepts, styles, or techniques
a very avant-garde artist whose works wouldn't even be considered art by many traditionalists
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as in vanguard
the innovators of new concepts, styles, and techniques especially in the arts
to the theater world's avant-garde, the melodrama seemed like a very old-fashioned play whose time had come and gone
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Recent Examples of avant-garde
Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
List does a marvelous job of placing Ray’s work in the context of both the avant-garde and its influence on later artists.
—Air Mail, 27 Sep. 2025
Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
Alex Katz: Theater and Dance Six Decades of Collaboration Between Visual Art and Performance
This is the first major exhibition dedicated to Alex Katz’s extensive collaborations with choreographers, dancers, and avant-garde theater artists.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
Dangling tie elements and a skirt slit lent a casual, avant-garde vibe to the look.
—Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
List does a marvelous job of placing Ray’s work in the context of both the avant-garde and its influence on later artists.
—Air Mail, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
Is British avant-garde electronic group Art of Noise teaming up with Nine Inch Nails?
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
Alex Katz: Theater and Dance Six Decades of Collaboration Between Visual Art and Performance
This is the first major exhibition dedicated to Alex Katz’s extensive collaborations with choreographers, dancers, and avant-garde theater artists.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for avant-garde
Adjective
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Advertisement Democrats are also facing pressure from their progressive wing to hold firm after what many saw as a surrender earlier this year, when centrist Democrats joined Republicans to pass a funding extension without concessions.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Even progressive critics from the party’s activist wing are applauding Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, who are insisting that any government spending package must extend health care subsidies that are set to expire at the year’s end.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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The home of world-leading firms such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG spent decades at technology’s vanguard, but fortunes have wilted in recent years because of a stifling regulatory environment, demographic pressures, and fierce competition from China.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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He’s so far collaborated with acts like Ecco2k and Xaviersobased, themselves vanguards of the underground-rap scene.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Rivian's electric trucks and SUVs are quick, powerful and include a suite of advanced standard features.—
Charles Singh,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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Elanco move jumpstarts OneHealth Innovation District With Elanco's move, the development of the OneHealth Innovation District, an advanced science hub, is officially underway.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
2 Oct. 2025
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Unlike the neo-Leninist underground, moreover, dissidents had no desire to revive Bolshevik revolutionary traditions, with their ideological discipline, armed conspiracy, and noms de guerre.—
Benjamin Nathans
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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Burnham Yard also is near an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site for radium contamination, but the Terracon report did not find any indication that there is a substantial amount of radioactive material underground.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Risher isn’t the only chief executive who throws out unconventional questions to get a deeper read on applicants.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Grant also advocates for experimentation and recommends that at-home mixologists utilize unconventional flavors often.—
Essence,
Essence,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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As per the team, the pioneering solution marks a massive step forward in making the first hydride ion prototype battery, moving the technology from a theoretical concept to experimental proof of its feasibility.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Sep. 2025
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The mountain community, which was little more than a one-lift ski hill known as Timp Haven, became synonymous with independent film and a pioneering model of sustainable tourism under Redford’s stewardship.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Jim Rinnert was the longtime art director for In These Times magazine and a theater enthusiast who co-wrote an award-winning multimedia theatrical work based on the writings of avant-grade theater and cinema artist Antonin Artaud.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Aug. 2025
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The product of a multinational household — daughter of a West African percussionist and a Swedish designer, stepdaughter of avant-jazz trumpeter Don Cherry — this year's most daring Best New Artist nominee went on to join several abrasive and ear-shattering British punk bands in the early '80s.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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But modern dentists are skeptical as to how effective this practice actually is at improving oral health.—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Netflix's modern retelling of the Biblical story of Ruth and Boaz, set in the tiny Tennessee town of Pegram, recently hit the global streaming platform.—
Katie Nixon,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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