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/vˈæŋɡɑːd/
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[ US /ˈvænˌɡɑɹd/ ]
[ US /ˈvænˌɡɑɹd/ ]
NOUN
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the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field
the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England
the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy - the leading units moving at the head of an army
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
How To Use vanguard In A Sentence
- Unless a member of the Vanguard or the Scarlet Scholars (both groups paying attention to what most consider obscure and nigh-useless knowledge), even most paranormal agents active today have only heard of the Bleak Baron Frederick or his granduncle Wolfgang and their works on fighting monsters. The Codex Continual » The Von Baurs
- Since Vanguard stopped flying, airfares have risen in Kansas City and service has diminished.
- This has become a motif among net-critics, whose vanguard is Andrew Keen, who wrote a sloppy, intellectually dishonest book called The Cult of the Amateur that damns the Internet for much the same reasons (Clay Shirky wrote a great response to Keen). Boing Boing
- These creative young people are part of the vanguard of new talent blossoming in our midst.
- Deeply antagonistic to reformist compromises with bourgeois democracy, syndicalists also disputed the Leninist strategy of organizing revolution via a vanguard party.
- Since then, the company has stayed in the vanguard of the market by consistently promoting technology standardization and adopting state-of-the-art technologies ahead of others.
- Once at the ship, the vanguard of the crowd scattered and stood irresolute. THE DISPOSSESSED
- Back before the Searing, they started out as the Ascalon Vanguard, an elite unit that fought alongside Prince Rurik and later ventured into the charr lands to take the battle to them. Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
- Of course, if we are talking about the real essensce of "vanguardism," focusing of Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
- The police captain reinforced from his vanguard, and the mob at the rear was repelled. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
