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  • noun Plural form of forefront.

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Examples

  • It's always assumed the right track/wrong track numbers are about the economy, which makes sense because economic facts are always in the forefronts of everyone's minds.

    This Is No Time for Games Peggy Noonan 2011

  • Sports business consultant Bernie Mullin of the Aspire Group, who was a Pittsburgh Pirates executive in the late 1980s when hockey superstar Mario Lemieux ruled that town, says that while not all basketball fans are necessarily baseball fans, the media attention keeps Cavs on the forefronts of people's minds.

    Indians Won't Root For LeBron To Stay 2010

  • Obama supporters are tempted to make a Down Syndrome distinction and to emphasize that the decision to have the child entails a commitment to spend extra time on it, but that only forefronts the disagreement about abortion -- for her, there was no choice -- and highlights the harsh reality that (some of those) who accept abortion think it's a good idea to discriminate against the (unborn) disabled.

    3 questions about Sarah Palin the Obama supporter should not want to ask. Ann Althouse 2008

  • And most important, the organizers of Live Earth have left the grass roots activists at the forefronts of the struggles against global warming and environmental devastation more broadly, especially in the developing world, out of the conversation when in fact they should be leading it.

    Mark Levine: Why Live Earth Will Fail 2008

  • You've seen them in the forefronts of campaigns recently.

    CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2007 2007

  • Meanwhile, the ACLU forefronts "keeping religion government-free," which really is one of the Establishment Clause values, even though it's not what we usually feel is motivating the ACLU to bring its lawsuits, so you may feel pretty skeptical.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • Patrons at Anna Seonomadi's shebeen in Ga-Romogopa, mostly on their way towards inebriation, have two election wishes in the forefronts of their minds.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision

  • And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

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