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the leading or most important part of a movement
Susan B. Anthony was on the front line of the struggle for woman suffrage
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Recent Examples of front lines
Overburdened infantrymen who had been on the front lines for months, some since the Normandy landings, remained there for weeks and months on end.
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Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Xipaia herself is at the front lines of the battle to preserve the Amazon, all while facing multiple assassination attempts, as well as impending motherhood.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025
Local communities, though, are on the front lines of the fluoride wars in most states, typically deciding whether or not to continue fluoridating their drinking water by council vote or community referendum.
—Anna Clark, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2025
And virtually all women east of the Appalachians experienced the violence, sickness, and scarcity of a civil war in which front lines and home fronts were never far apart.
—Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Guard members were also on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic — staffing emergency call centers, working at food banks and removing the dead from hospitals.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
Many members of the new Committee for the First Amendment were on the front lines of the screenwriters and actors strikes of 2023.
—Kathy M. Newman, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
When wildfires hit northern California in August 2020, the duo began visiting base camps where the firefighters stage their equipment before heading out to the front lines.
—Kathleen Toner, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Specialists on the front lines of the genomic revolution in biology are confident that such scaling will be possible, their conviction coming in part from past experience.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Xipaia herself is at the front lines of the battle to preserve the Amazon, all while facing multiple assassination attempts, as well as impending motherhood.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025
Local communities, though, are on the front lines of the fluoride wars in most states, typically deciding whether or not to continue fluoridating their drinking water by council vote or community referendum.
—Anna Clark, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2025
And virtually all women east of the Appalachians experienced the violence, sickness, and scarcity of a civil war in which front lines and home fronts were never far apart.
—Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Guard members were also on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic — staffing emergency call centers, working at food banks and removing the dead from hospitals.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
Many members of the new Committee for the First Amendment were on the front lines of the screenwriters and actors strikes of 2023.
—Kathy M. Newman, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
When wildfires hit northern California in August 2020, the duo began visiting base camps where the firefighters stage their equipment before heading out to the front lines.
—Kathleen Toner, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Specialists on the front lines of the genomic revolution in biology are confident that such scaling will be possible, their conviction coming in part from past experience.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
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