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Parts of armies & groups of servicemen
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Describing the leading position

vanguard | American Dictionary

vanguard
noun[ Cusually sing ]
us/ˈvænˌɡɑrd/
the front part of a group of people who are moving forward, esp. an army
The vanguard is also the people who are making changes or new developments in something:
These craftspeople are in the vanguard in the art of modern furniture design.

Examples of the vanguard

the vanguard
The mobilized vanguard saw its role as class organising and agitation.
Those in the vanguard of this industrial growth grew in wealth and status.
Within this carefully defined environment, community organizations were the vanguard of political activism encompassing, among many others, social movements to protect patients' rights.
In anaphoric contexts, women were on the vanguard of the slow long-term development, as they led the stronger tendency toward the plural variant.
Medical ethicists belong in the vanguard of the struggle to reclaim the moral high ground for a profession in danger of losing its moorings.
This put him in the vanguard of the new theor y of education and upbr inging.
Why put such terms as "culture shock" (p. 88), "vanguard" (p. 91) and "bread and butter" (p. 99) in quotation marks?
There was a capitalist vanguard and there were missionaries of capitalism.
And in the 1860s, the horsewoman was in the vanguard of style in women's publications.
There is no indication of its precise circumstances; of how the revolutionary vanguard would be recruited, led, or organized; or what tactics it would use.
Conflict can become a positive force when transformed and drama can be in the vanguard of its transformation.
He continued to see himself as part of a vanguard modernist elite engaged in a crucial battle against a broad front of obstructionist conservative forces.
Yet they are habitually bracketed together as the vanguard of positivism, of course, and indeed were close after the 1850s.
I hope that we never initiate changes, nor even find ourselves in the vanguard.
That orbit had to be left behind in order to consolidate his position in what, as he presented it, was the theoretical vanguard.
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