avant-garde

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I think there is a bit of a disconnect here between the old guard of verification work and the avant-garde.

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Quick take

any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of avant-garde gathered in one view.

noun

any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

adjective

radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for avant-garde.

noun

any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

adjective

radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece"

Example sentences

I think there is a bit of a disconnect here between the old guard of verification work and the avant-garde.

In the future, this may become easier as certain technologies become democratised, and the avant-garde again becomes the status quo.

I couldn't help noticing that many of the actors took a somewhat avant-garde interpretation of the source material.

Number one is the avant-garde pitfall, where you have the idea that youre writing for other writers, so you dont worry about making yourself accessible or relevant.

Can anyone recommend a good novice-friendly Linux distro with a clean, consistent UI that isn't being progressively replaced with presumptuous avant-garde nonsense?

As an aspiring classical musician at the time who was interested in the avant-garde, I was naturally curious about Glass's music, but I went in without any concept of what the movie was like/about.

The project thats worth trying is to do stuff that has some of the richness and challenge and emotional and intellectual difficulty of avant-garde literary stuff, stuff that makes the reader confront things rather than ignore them, but to do that in such a way that its also pleasurable to read.