lead on
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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“There’s something that’s really important that everybody hears from Anthropic, and I think the president has said this many, many times: The United States needs to stay in the lead on AI,” Heck said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Do you have any regrets about letting former keyboardist Paul Carrack sing lead on 1981’s “Tempted,” which turned out to be one of the band’s biggest hits?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Increasingly, he said, these countries could take the lead on the front lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
The DC’s attorney’s office was taking a lead on fighting crypto scams with an “eye toward making victims whole,” Pirro said in a press release at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
In his daily report, he said that he’d spent hours with Mathis and Sheriff Freas, whose trial was still pending, pursuing this “clue that seems to be a lead on the case.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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