New Frontier

noun

the principles and policies of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President John F. Kennedy.

New Frontier

A slogan used by President John F. Kennedy to describe his goals and policies. Kennedy maintained that, like the Americans of the frontier in the nineteenth century, Americans of the twentieth century had to rise to new challenges, such as achieving equality of opportunity for all.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of New Frontier¹

As a political catchphrase, apparently first used by Henry Wallace in a book of the same title (1934)

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They are the new frontier of America, a strange return to some recognizable normalcy after years of being inundated with nothing but Kardashian clout-chasing.

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They are the new frontier of America, a strange return to some recognizable normalcy after years of being inundated with nothing but Kardashian clout-chasing.

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Both the Eagles and Ward-Hibbert have a raft of domestic winners' medals, but winning a European trophy is a new frontier, and they are determined to add to their legacy.

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“Cybercriminals are already using generative AI to automate attacks, and large genetic datasets like this offer a new frontier,” Pete Nicoletti, a cybersecurity expert and member of the FBI and Secret Service Cybersecurity Task Force, told Salon in an email.

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They’re squaring off over a new frontier: prebiotic soda, the fizzy, gut-friendly darlings of the wellness-industrial complex.

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