vanguard
IPA: vˈængɑrd
noun
- (military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
- (by extension) The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.
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Examples of "vanguard" in Sentences
- We have to try to make this factory a model one, but not the kind of model place they call vanguard, that wins 10 medals, or 3 banners.
- The Federal vanguard is reported to be five miles from the Southern capital, to which point the Confederates had fallen back without any real resistance.
- The ever forward-thinking '80s music vanguard is helping to drown out the sound of online flotsam with a new music and entertainment recommendation system.
- Being in the vanguard is nothing new for Nappier, who in 1998 became not only the first African American woman to hold statewide office in Connecticut but the first African American woman to hold a U.S. state treasurer’s seat.
- As hugely expensive as it is to design, produce, fly, and maintain vanguard fighters, it takes far more effort and money to hone pilots’ skills, to keep squadrons of pilots like Rodriguez constantly flying, practicing, and getting better.
- 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).
- Karmakin, I invest in vanguard’s money market fund (not FDIC insured, but very safe and earns % 5.15 percent), and vanguard’s indexed funds. vanguard is well respected. many call it a charity company because their management fees are so low. and a lot of research suggests that indexed funds outperform mutual funds.
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