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Definition

the leading position in any movement or field

More rarely, vanguard is used in a military context to specifically refer to units moving at the head of an army.

Our company is at the vanguard of the green movement.

They dashed against the rows of stakes, covering them with slick blood and limp corpses as the ranks at the vanguard were crushed against the posts.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
Ere long the vanguard swirled round the spur's end and came rushing into Dale.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
I can make out the gray and balding head of my younger son in the vanguard.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
A vanguard of six-armed Earthborn threw a volley of stones that shattered the bone-and-jewel floor like ice.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
The French contingent poured out of them only to find that again the Americans had beaten them and formed the vanguard of the parade.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The vanguard spread out behind them, a slow-moving forest of lances and banners and spears.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
The first of these traded blows with the leaders of our vanguard, and two men fell.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
They were the elite, the vanguard of progress.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
For almost 200 years they constituted the vanguard of the Fon against European colonizers.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Those in greatest jeopardy, the troops in Mifflin's vanguard, were still holding the outer defenses.
David G. McCullough -- 1776
In a moment the vanguard appeared around the bend.
James Lincoln Collier -- My Brother Sam is Dead
It was of this detachment, sent as a vanguard, that our friend d'Artagnan formed a part.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
He himself had mentioned John Kwang as a part of that vanguard, though his implication was then cast only in terms of succession.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
Writers, artists, and savants of America's progressive vanguard have, for years, passed through his living room, pollinating him and his two brothers.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
They are in the vanguard of the fight for Peace and Progress.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Harlon, Doc, Ira, and Franklin swept forward with the rest of Easy Company, in the vanguard of the attack.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
The ladies, with Frau Stohr in the vanguard—though Mmes.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
In the last red glow men in the vanguard saw a black speck, a horseman riding back towards them.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
And about Whiz Go's vanguard status.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld

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