Definitions
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- adjective Closest to the front; first.
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- adjective
superlative form offorward : mostforward .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our first stop: Camp Bonifas, the forwardmost U.N. Command base.
War Tour 2010
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Yes, it's comforting to know that if your hands eventually do migrate to the forwardmost set of bar ends that you don't have to clamber back down the ladder in order to stop yourself:
Prize Fighting: Knuckle Down to Win BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Engineering types will visualize bailing buckets attached to the grips on the oars, which fill on the back stroke and pour as the oar blades reach their forwardmost point.
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Yes, it's comforting to know that if your hands eventually do migrate to the forwardmost set of bar ends that you don't have to clamber back down the ladder in order to stop yourself:
Archive 2009-07-01 BikeSnobNYC 2009
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I was off to one side and just coming even with the forwardmost Brit, the most senior of the officers, still plodding forward with head held high, when his forward progress jerked to an abrupt halt as a large hole appeared in his chest.
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Others usually hunkered down in dangerous places — the vicinity of airports, forts, and enemy troop concentrations, for example — to become the forwardmost eyes and ears of the air assault.
The Kabul-ki Dance 2002
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Others usually hunkered down in dangerous places — the vicinity of airports, forts, and enemy troop concentrations, for example — to become the forwardmost eyes and ears of the air assault.
The Kabul-ki Dance 2002
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In this forwardmost area of the ship, the plexisteel windows looked outward into the twisting vortex of stars as the Enterprise traveled among them at high warp.
In the Name of Honor Dayton Ward 2002
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In this forwardmost area of the ship, the plexisteel windows looked outward into the twisting vortex of stars as the Enterprise traveled among them at high warp.
In the Name of Honor Dayton Ward 2002
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In this forwardmost area of the ship, the plexisteel windows looked outward into the twisting vortex of stars as the Enterprise traveled among them at high warp.
In the Name of Honor Dayton Ward 2002
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