How to Use vanguard in a Sentence

vanguard

noun
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  • The granddaddy of them all, this is the vanguard of the style.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The last male artist to win the video vanguard award was Kanye West in 2015.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But there seems to be little doubt that Mr. Kim was in the vanguard.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Texas and a handful of other states have been at the vanguard of that push.
    — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Khan is at the vanguard of the Big Tech antitrust movement.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021
  • What is the role of skin tone among the vanguard, knowing that so many at the forefront were lighter-skinned?
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Yet the big studios aren’t always in the vanguard of such reappraisals.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
  • These officers are at the vanguard of the city's efforts to kick the strip clubs out of downtown.
    — Anjeanette Damon, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2019
  • But the series itself isn’t at the vanguard of anything.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022
  • And for Earl, who was pushing 50, Carroll was a perfect conduit to the kids on the vanguard.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2022
  • And Texas was just on the vanguard of the new body of voter suppression tactics.
    — David Daley, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Texas and Florida were on the vanguard of that backlash.
    — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • At the vanguard of this fight are our health care workers, 70 percent of whom are women.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 13 July 2020
  • That’s in a country that hasn’t seen a recession since the 1990s and is in the vanguard of nations containing the virus.
    — Emily Cadman, Fortune, 6 July 2020
  • In 2009, Poland and France proposed creating a vanguard group of countries willing to act when the rest of the EU would not.
    — Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • No one said that being in the housing reform vanguard would be easy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Once on the fringes of Israeli politics, the settler movement now makes up the vanguard of the Israeli right.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 May 2021
  • But the category could do a lot worse than the Lenovo Fold X1 as its vanguard.
    — Pete Pachal, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Few people, at least in the United States, thought as much (the vanguard of critics who forged the idea of cinema as art was in France).
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
  • South Korea has long been at the vanguard of concern about addiction to video games.
    — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Black women like Stacey Abrams and Shirley Chisholm who served as the vanguard of democracy are starting to get their due.
    — Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2020
  • And flight attendants have been at the vanguard of the labor movement ever since.
    — Nell McShane Wulfhart, Time, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Being in the vanguard also means being out front: leading and showing the way.
    — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Rather, Jared Isaacman is a tech billionaire who dropped out of high school to start his company and is now in the vanguard of the new Space Age.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022
  • At the vanguard of this movement are a number of young brands changing the way in which loafers are being designed, worn and perceived.
    — Benedict Browne, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The return of the hulking, gas-guzzling Hummer as an EV is the vanguard of the company’s electric makeover.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2021
  • DJ Rekha, who was at the vanguard of bhangra beats in American clubs, created the festive playlist.
    — Andy Wang, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Since coming to power, the S.N.P. has sought to play two roles: as a capable government and as the vanguard of a movement.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • The music and fashion vanguard made the incendiary post in October 2022, threatening to take the Jewish community to task.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 8 Aug. 2024

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