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Definition
the leading position in any movement or field
- She was the standard-bearer of a vanguard of intellect and revolt.2.4 — Part 2 Chapter 4 (94% in)
- New Frontiers had a white cover with a black emblem that combined a palette, a lyre, a hammer, a screw driver and a rising sun; it had a circulation of thirty thousand and a following that described itself as the intellectual vanguard of the country; no one had ever risen to challenge the description.1.4 — Part 1 Chapter 4 (1% in)
- Eve Layton believed that her mission in life was to be the vanguard—it did not matter of what.4.6 — Part 4 Chapter 6 (33% in)
There are no more uses of "vanguard" in The Fountainhead.
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