Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To border.
- noun Front; fore side; border: an earlier form of
frontier .
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- adjective phonetics
comparative form offront : morefront - noun A person who or thing that
fronts .
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Examples
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From now on, Copyright Watch will be spotting new changes, identifying quirks and novelties in different laws, and keeping watch at the IP fronter -- wherever in the world that might be.
Boing Boing 2009
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Read all about it in my Metro fronter today, which kicks off with Marion Barry saying that the control board that he once assailed as a "rape of democracy" has been in hindsight a good thing for the city.
DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 31, 2011 Mike DeBonis 2011
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But not before Keith Alexander penned a Saturday Metro-fronter on the decision, which, he notes, "end [s] a dispute that legal observers said was destined to become one of the biggest First Amendment cases in years."
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I think the logical for that proposition is clear if we do a thought experiment and consider whether George W. Bush would ever have become President if he were George Walker and Hilary Clinton would be the co-fronter at this point if she were Hilary Rodam.
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During the thirties, Stone was, as he said, a fellow traveler and "a strong popular fronter before there was a popular front."
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I begin by analyzing the key role played by Red fronter turned Red hunter J.B. Matthews, himself an ordained Methodist, in calling attention to Soviet-lining clergy in a highly controversial 1953 American Mercury article.
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I begin by analyzing the key role played by Red fronter turned Red hunter J.B. Matthews, himself an ordained Methodist, in calling attention to Soviet-lining clergy in a highly controversial 1953 American Mercury article.
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"In fronter the crew an 'all," he disparaged them with a disrespectful grin.
Ship Of Destiny Hobb, Robin 2000
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Litvinoff, you see, was a great united fronter and
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Seminary, a notorious communist-fronter; and Roger Baldwin.
The Invisible Government Dan Smoot 1958
hernesheir commented on the word fronter
Scots term for a 4 year old ewe. See frunter.
May 18, 2011