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Forefront   /fˈɔrfrˌənt/   Listen
Forefront

noun
1.
The part in the front or nearest the viewer.  Synonym: head.  "He was at the head of the column"
2.
The position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field.  Synonyms: cutting edge, vanguard.  "The idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy"






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"Forefront" Quotes from Famous Books



... powers and other qualities, became a leader in society, going everywhere and knowing everybody worth knowing. He d. unmarried, aged 91, and his Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence, which stands in the forefront of its class, was ...
— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin

... others could mount, the schooner's crew came with so fierce a rush that, being in the forefront boldly heading his little party of two, Mark was driven back to the rail, and tossed over, but made a desperate clutch to save himself, and caught at ...
— The Black Bar • George Manville Fenn

... feeling. It was the consciousness that a great and terrible war was at hand. Although but a youth, he had been in the forefront of things. He had been at Montgomery and Sumter, and he had seen the fire and zeal of the South. He had been at Frankfort, too, and he had seen how the gathering force of the massive North had refused to be moved. His father and his friends, with all their skill and force, strengthened ...
— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler

... is so ungrateful as he who has so completely laid aside and cast away that which ought to be in the forefront of his mind and ever before him, that he knows it not? It is clear that if forgetfulness of a benefit steals over a man, he cannot have often thought about ...
— L. Annaeus Seneca On Benefits • Seneca

... slowly that, though their power to reach our minds is unheard-of in any of the seven galaxies we know about, it still cannot take and use any but the ideas in the forefront of our consciousness. In other words, chess was a possibility. They could be forced to take a sacrificed piece, as well as being forced to lose one of their own. They extrapolate a sequence beautifully—but they can be out-thought. So much for that: ...
— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn


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