Advancing and In front

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Advancing adjective - Moving forward.

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In front and advancing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "In front" instead an adverb "Advancing".

Nearby Words: advance, advanced, advancement, advancer

In front adverb - At or in the front.

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Advancing and in front are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Advancing" instead an adverb phrase "In front".

Parappa's is actually a downward-advancing Spam Attack and Kratos' Barbarian Hammer slam mainly has priority in front of him instead of below.

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Generally it's a sort of reverse leapfrog (used while advancing) where those in front retreat to the rear of the group while the rest fire forward.

Source: Tactical Withdrawal
Fifteen seconds later he was out of his house and lying in front of a big yellow bulldozer that was advancing up his garden path.

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