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spearhead

[ speer-hed ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
any person, contingent, or force that leads an attack, undertaking, etc.:
Cuba was the spearhead of the independence movement within Latin America.

to lead or initiate (an undertaking):
She is spearheading an ambitious research project whose results may be used by NASA.
Synonyms: pioneer, initiate, start, lead

spearhead

/ ˈspɪəˌhɛd /

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; spear ¹, head

Boris Johnson, the UK’s prime minister since 2019 and the spearhead of the 2016 Brexit campaign, resigned today.

She did not spearhead initiatives to help mothers rejoin the world of work.

Putin appears to be using elite commandos—Spetsnaz—to spearhead his stealth move into Crimea and, perhaps, beyond.

Price runs his own MRM on-line magazine, The Spearhead, which both compliments and competes with AV4M.

He will travel to Sanford this week to help spearhead protest rallies.

Or helping spearhead the push for comprehensive immigration reform among American Christians.

MacRae's seat, stone-marker, and aboriginal spearhead; the three lined up like the sights of a modern rifle.

See if you can strike off tiny flakes until the large flake looks like a spearhead.

In the coffin were also a bronze spearhead and several weapons of flint—facts which all go to establish a remote date.

On 4th June, 1915, in Gallipoli, you forced your way like a spearhead into and through line upon line of Turkish trenches.

The spearhead at the same rate would weigh about eighteen pounds twelve ounces.

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