new guard

plural new guards

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

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

   2023 November 30, Jonah Waterhouse, “What does New Zealand fashion look like? These 4 designers give a fresh idea”, in Vogue Australia

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   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.

   1971 December 29, Zygmunt Bauman, “Twenty Years After: The Crisis of Soviet-Type Systems”, in Theodore Frankel, editor, Problems of Communism, volume 20, number 6, page 49

   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.

   2022 January 17, Liam Hess, “The new guard of young designers interrogating cultural identity”, in Dazed Digital

plural New Guards

1. Alternative letter-case form of new guard.