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spearheaded

[speer-hed-id]

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adjective

initiated or led (sometimes used in combination).
Thanks to a recently spearheaded effort by a consortium of wineries, you can now find these fruit wines at your local wine shop.
The "Solar Street" is a student-spearheaded, 18-kilowatt array of solar cells on the roofs of a row of houses.
like a spear or spearhead in sharpness or triangular shape, or in being precisely targeted or aimed.
The workshop taught me a more spearheaded approach to managing tasks in my business.
The warriors spread out, adopting a spearheaded formation.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of spearhead.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of spearheaded¹

First recorded in 1800–10; spearhead ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; spearhead ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

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But Australia's last five wickets went down for a paltry 18 runs as Rabada spearheaded South Africa's pace attack with discipline and skill.

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Reform UK's deputy leader, Richard Tice, said the party's success at the local elections "was partly because of the significant efforts and improvements to the infrastructure of the party" spearheaded by Yusuf.

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Miller said in court that Spitzer had threatened to fire her close friends in the office, and dismantle programs she had spearheaded in retaliation.

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Since becoming chief executive in 1994, He has spearheaded the airline's sharp trajectory from a relatively small regional airline into a Europe's largest low-cost carrier.

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The wage increase was spearheaded by Unite Here Local 11, the hotel and restaurant worker union, and by Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West, which represents private-sector airport workers.

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