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Recent Examples of leading edge
Dennis Romero, NBC news, 28 Dec. 2025
The Artemis team worked closely with Rondal, Royal Huisman’s composites and spars subsidiary, to create Aera’s giant, one-of-a-kind sail with a leading edge shaped like an airfoil and a total surface area measuring 2,640 square feet.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2025
Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
However, its leading-edge manufacturing prowess has fallen behind the likes of TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung Foundry.
—Kevin Stankiewicz,zev Fima, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The tornadoes followed the leading edge of a cold front that caused plummeting temperatures and created roiling, unstable air as the storm moved east-southeast and collided with warmer air, federal forecasters said.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 28 Dec. 2025
The Artemis team worked closely with Rondal, Royal Huisman’s composites and spars subsidiary, to create Aera’s giant, one-of-a-kind sail with a leading edge shaped like an airfoil and a total surface area measuring 2,640 square feet.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2025
Adjective
The government has prioritized domestic production of leading-edge chips as competition over artificial intelligence hardware intensifies.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
However, its leading-edge manufacturing prowess has fallen behind the likes of TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung Foundry.
—Kevin Stankiewicz,zev Fima, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leading edge
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The ruling Democratic Progressive Party, which has won three consecutive elections to stay in power since 2016, is at the forefront of efforts to accelerate the severance of its nation’s Chinese connection.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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These topics have been at the forefront of school board meetings over the past few years.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2026
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Opened in 2025, the modern Persian cafe serves barbari bread and lavash wrap sandwiches, tahini-date shakes and chai lattes, plus a full slate of events aimed at uplifting the local Persian community.—
Angela Osorio,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Renovations will include replacing the substation’s infrastructure with more modern equipment, which Miller said would be quieter.—
Emily Holshouser,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Mar. 2026
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The video is the latest in a lengthy stream of controversies the probation department has faced in recent years.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2023
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The shooting happened the day before the fifth anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that killed 17 and is the latest in what has become a deadly new year in the U.S.—
Joey Cappelletti and Mike Householder,
Anchorage Daily News,
15 Feb. 2023
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Featuring both contemporary and historical artists from Japan and abroad, TOP offers a broad-spectrum view on the medium of photography.—
Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Mar. 2026
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Jones, whose novel Kin has just been released, is often described as a timely writer, but to concentrate only on the contemporary urgency of her books is to ignore her clear interest in the past and its conventions.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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Beautifully cast and acted, as well-paced as any series in recent memory, HBO’s production is not just watchable but addictive, a weekly antidote to the flavorless crime sagas that now dominate streaming and network TV.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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The landslides happened in recent days in the Gamo Zone districts of Gacho Baba, Kamba and Bonke, said Mesfin Manuqa, the Gamo Zone director of disaster response.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Mar. 2026
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Instead, it’s gone from Rat Pack to high-tech as its embraces cutting-edge technologies, from virtual reality attractions to a giant 360-degree screen, that submerge you into an alternative world.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
9 Mar. 2026
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For teams seeking cutting-edge AI features and natural-language capabilities, Zendesk has the edge.—
John Brandon,
PC Magazine,
8 Mar. 2026
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The facility had been recently hardened with a concrete shell and then covered with soil in the months before the current conflict.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Mar. 2026
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The discovery that the sun and many of these solar twins are of similar ages and located about the same distance from the center of the galaxy suggests that the sun is not at its current position by accident.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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Publicly available satellite imagery shows the school building was part of the military compound until about 2017, when a new wall was added to separate the two.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Mar. 2026
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Rosenthal believes stories about kids feeling nervous or afraid to try new things connect with both children and adults.—
Lisa Boone,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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