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Words with the same meaning
- a la mode
- advance guard
- advanced
- airhead
- ancestor
- announcer
- antecedent
- authentic
- battle line
- beachhead
- bellwether
- bridgehead
- buccinator
- bushwhacker
- contemporary
- creative
- exploratory
- explorer
- far out
- farthest outpost
- fashionable
- first line
- firsthand
- forebear
- forefront
- foregoer
- forerunner
- forward-looking
- fresh
- front
- front line
- front rank
- front runner
- front-runner
- frontiersman
- fugleman
- groundbreaker
- guide
- harbinger
- herald
- imaginative
- in
- inaugural
- innovation
- innovator
- latest fad
- latest fashion
- latest wrinkle
- lead runner
- leader
- line
- messenger
- mod
- modern
- modernistic
- modernized
- modish
- new
- new look
- newfangled device
- newfashioned
- novel
- novelty
- now
- original
- outguard
- outpost
- pathfinder
- pioneer
- point
- precedent
- preceding
- precursor
- predecessor
- preliminary
- present-day
- present-time
- progressive
- railhead
- revolutionary
- scout
- spearhead
- stormy petrel
- streamlined
- the in thing
- the last word
- the latest thing
- trailblazer
- trailbreaker
- twentieth-century
- ultra-ultra
- ultramodern
- underived
- unique
- up-to-date
- up-to-datish
- up-to-the-minute
- van
- vanguard
- vaunt-courier
- voortrekker
- way out
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