spearheads 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of spearhead

spearheads

2 of 2

noun

plural of spearhead

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of spearheads
Noun
His eldest son Lorenzo, who joined the company in 2017, spearheads the group’s ESG efforts and forward-facing evolution. Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025 RuPaul, 64, spearheads his titular series, RuPaul’s Drag Race, as host, judge and producer. Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025 Melissa Beeson Dixon, director of operations, lives on-site and spearheads the animal husbandry, manages volunteers and coordinates the various programs. Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spearheads
Verb
  • Alexander currently leads Missouri with 69 total points and 60 digs while unleashing 158 total attacks in 2025.
    Brady Shanahan, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Samsung leads this category too with a score of 82, followed by Shark (81), Bissell, and Dyson (80 each), Roomba (78), Dirt Devil, and Eureka (77 apiece), and Electrolux and Hoover (both 76).
    Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • From ethics in our government offices, to reproductive health care, to the climate crisis and beyond, ProPublica remains on the front lines of the stories that matter most.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This affordability allows both countries to field them in large numbers across their front lines.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Still, Tony Leung commands the screen with such economy of gesture, such magnetic stillness, such sheer star power.
    Leila Latif, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Twelve years later, the hotel still commands relevance in a market that constantly reinvents itself.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the new Regensdorf trial, RIVR ONE robots will be hitching rides in Swiss Post delivery vans, then carrying select Swiss Post parcels and Migros Online grocery deliveries from those vans to clients' doorsteps.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In photos published by The Sun, several police vans and fire trucks are seen surrounding the plane on the runway at Heathrow Airport.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Spearheads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spearheads. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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