Leading
Leading adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Trailing
Trailing noun - The act of going after or in the tracks of another.
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- A cell with leading and trailing spaces is centered; a cell with leading spaces is right-aligned; all other cells are left-aligned.
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The Soviet tank commander made sure to utilize the KV-2's strengths by trapping the entire column on a narrow road going through a swamp by blowing up the leading and trailing German tanks.
Source: Tank Goodness -
On average, the leading team scores an empty net goal about 1/3 of the time while the trailing team scores a goal about 1/9 of the time - in the long run this strategy is detrimental to the team that pulled its goalie.
Source: Godzilla Threshold
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