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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
Depop forecasts ‘indie vanguard’ as a defining aesthetic of the year, with individuality and spontaneity dominating fashion in an era ruled by hedonistic energy.
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Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2025
Perry, 39, will receive this year's video vanguard award and treat viewers to a medley of her biggest hits — plus, presumably, material from her upcoming 143 album.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
The Little Review, the radical and short-lived magazine helmed by Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson, was a vanguard of modernism in American culture.
—Francesca Wade, The New York Review of Books, 28 Nov. 2024
Black communities are usually at the creative vanguard, from Renaissance art movements to fashion and even colloquialisms.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
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Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2025
Perry, 39, will receive this year's video vanguard award and treat viewers to a medley of her biggest hits — plus, presumably, material from her upcoming 143 album.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
The Little Review, the radical and short-lived magazine helmed by Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson, was a vanguard of modernism in American culture.
—Francesca Wade, The New York Review of Books, 28 Nov. 2024
Black communities are usually at the creative vanguard, from Renaissance art movements to fashion and even colloquialisms.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanguard
Noun
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It’s been sweet watching the sound expand overseas, the seeds of inspo traveling way further than the pioneers intended.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
9 Apr. 2025
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Collins went on to join another funk pioneer: George Clinton, whose alternating bands Parliament and Funkadelic were innovating a looser, more improvisational and funnier style that would help define Black music in the ’70s.—
Steve Knopper,
Billboard,
9 Apr. 2025
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Tami Gaines, founder and CEO of Sage Enterprises LLC, has been at the forefront of changing this for about 25 years.—
Molly Peck,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
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The open source debate has been part of model development since the beginning – and recent news shows that companies at the forefront of the AI model charge are often able to put pressure on each other.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The city this month began drilling at Del Prado Park, the first of several sites being explored to find safe, potable water underground.—
Kyle Martin,
The Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2025
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In the ever-evolving cyber underground, ransomware extortionists have grown to become perhaps the most sophisticated and formidable threat.—
Etay Maor,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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These works form a collective portrait of the Paris avant-garde during Kahlo’s time in Europe on the eve of World War II, particularly the Surrealists, a generation after Rivera first arrived there.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Rae twirled ethereally next to the Venezuela electronic music diva, who delivered an overal avant-garde set, also bringing out Tokischa for a duet.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Vanguard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanguard. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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