How to Use the vanguard in a Sentence

the vanguard

noun
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  • The brigades are expected to be in the vanguard of the attack.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
  • Not just the mill girls, but the girls on the vanguard of freedom movements in the United States and around the world now.
    — Time, 13 June 2023
  • The very same board that has been on the vanguard of school choice, approving over 40 charter schools in the last 10 years.
    — Stefan Bean, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The pilots returned to Iran as the vanguard of their country’s air force, but in 1979 the Shah was overthrown.
    — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Youth in Crisis: Maine hoped to be in the vanguard of a movement to transform how governments deal with teenagers who break the law.
    — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Youth in Crisis: Maine hoped to be in the vanguard of a movement to transform how governments deal with teenagers who break the law.
    — Callie Ferguson Ashley L. Conti, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The bulk of the nine Ukrainian brigades has yet to be committed to the fight, but the vanguard of that main assault force is already making its mark.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • Kadyrov has been a vocal supporter of the war against Ukraine, with Chechen forces forming part of the vanguard of the Russian army in the region.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2022
  • That newfound success puts Colorado on the vanguard of land-use reform, the experts said.
    — Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
  • Stern Pinball is in the vanguard of this renaissance, making home and arcade versions of many of its games.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Birmingham officials could soon be in the vanguard of giving more rights to renters.
    — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2023
  • These days some people might praise Jerry as being in the vanguard of the struggle for a reasonable work-life balance.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The United States is in a position to lead this charge—indeed, any such effort will fall short unless Washington is in the vanguard.
    — Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Well, at this point, the states are the vanguard in the fight against the rise of the unelected federal administrative state, and state attorneys general are the tip of the spear in that fight.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The implication is that what the vanguard struggled to achieve by fiat was going to happen anyway.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Connecticut is in the vanguard of campaign finance reform, so that’s to be expected.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 20 May 2024
  • Reports all the way to Astoria have been grim, although the vanguard of a decent upriver Columbia run is due any day.
    — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Some festivities acknowledge the arrival — later than the vanguard company but still the first of their nations — of people from around the world who have made Utah their home.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2023
  • Others running the caucus have been on the vanguard of those pushing unfounded election fraud allegations in the state.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 5 Feb. 2024
  • This exhibition is a testament to Stout’s enduring relevance in a city that prides itself on being the vanguard of the art world.
    — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 6 May 2024
  • This station is one that’s really on the vanguard of embracing podcasting.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But while the house has maintained its focus on the vanguard of newcomers, Phillips’s executive team is also determined not to leave artists of the past (including the likes of Bacon and O’Keeffe) behind.
    — Angelica Villa For Artnews, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The company is on its way to selling nearly 2 million cars this year and is widely considered to be on the vanguard of the auto industry’s shift to electric vehicles.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 26 July 2023
  • Japanese companies are in the vanguard of a push to commercialize the technology: Toyota is aiming for as early as 2027, Nissan the year after and Honda by the end of the decade.
    — Financial Times, Ars Technica, 17 June 2024
  • The startup, which is known for its Kimi chatbot, is the vanguard of Chinese tech companies working on generative AI models.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Well before becoming a parent, Mr. Garland was at the vanguard of popular music.
    — Sadie Gurman, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Myanmar’s army views itself as the vanguard of Burman-Buddhist nationalism.
    — Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
  • This dynamic made Middle Eastern autocracies extremely durable: in the Arab world, the middle class, which tends to be the vanguard of democracy elsewhere, was at best ambivalent to rule by the people.
    — Amaney A. Jamal, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013
  • For decades, Intel was the vanguard of semiconductor manufacturing, designing, and producing the world’s most cutting-edge chips to power the most advanced front of tech.
    — Byeamon Barrett, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • DeSantis once was on the vanguard of promoting vaccines, traveling the state in early 2021, urging seniors to be vaccinated.
    — Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023

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