Meaning of new guard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who is more willing to accept new ideas than their peers are.
2. Collectively, people who have recently gained prominence or influence within a specific field.

Examples

“The fits and starts of recent East European political history have many of their deepest roots in this inherently ambiguous predicament of the new guard of middle- and upper-level leaders.”

“Across the UK, a new guard of designers is drawing on global influences to ask how we can use our pasts – whether cultural heritage, personal histories, or intergenerational trauma and healing – to forge a new path to the future that ricochets between the boundaries of sexuality, gender, race, and nationality.”

“Docherty sees the new guard of New Zealand designers as representing the country’s multifaceted nature.”

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