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as in pioneer
the innovators of new concepts, styles, and techniques especially in the arts
a style of jazz that the vanguard quickly recognized as new and exciting
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as in forefront
the leading or most important part of a movement
talk radio is often regarded as being in the vanguard of the conservative movement
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Recent Examples of vanguard
The sense that reopened doors to a market of hundreds of millions of potential fans and recent pledges between Korea, China, and Japan to deepen economic ties could be an important cultural vanguard for greater future harmony and opportunity.
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Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Ghazi is part of a vanguard of ultrarich investors betting on a particularly down-and-out asset: San Francisco commercial real estate.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025
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by Alex Mar
The Little Review, the radical and short-lived magazine helmed by Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson, was a vanguard of modernism in American culture.
—The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2024
Writer-director Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, out December 25, aims to lead the latest in the fang-banging vanguard.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2024
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Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Ghazi is part of a vanguard of ultrarich investors betting on a particularly down-and-out asset: San Francisco commercial real estate.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
by Alex Mar
The Little Review, the radical and short-lived magazine helmed by Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson, was a vanguard of modernism in American culture.
—The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2024
Writer-director Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, out December 25, aims to lead the latest in the fang-banging vanguard.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanguard
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Consistent with his other boutiques, the space’s interior incorporates marble and terrazzo, paired with furnishings by celebrated artists like French Art Deco pioneer Jacques Adnet, American designer Edward Wormley and American woodworker and architect George Nakashima.—
Ryma Chikhoune,
Footwear News,
30 May 2025
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The film explores transgender identity and legacy, chronicling the divergent paths of iconic pioneers April Ashley, Amanda Lear and others.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
30 May 2025
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The Path Forward The aviation industry has always been at the forefront of technological innovation.—
Stoyan Mitov,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Notably, accessibility and aging is at the forefront of its place design.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
29 May 2025
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The thriller follows a streetwise chess prodigy pulled into a brutal underground circuit where every match is a deadly gamble.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
15 May 2025
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However, remember that this will not remove the fungi underground, just the visible mushrooms.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
11 May 2025
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With the rise of avant-garde filmmakers in the 1960s, Iran‘s New Wave emerged, marked by the works of pioneers like Ebrahim Golestan, Farrokh Ghaffari, Hajir Darioush, and Forough Farrokhzad.—
Ali Farahmand,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
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However, Campbell still values shock here and there, channeling an unexpected detail at Pharrell’s first Louis Vuitton show: a purple-streaked wig blending her avant-garde past with the classic future.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
22 May 2025
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“Vanguard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanguard. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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