forward-looking
adjective
for·ward-look·ing
ˈfȯr-wərd-ˌlu̇-kiŋ 
: concerned with or planning for the future
Examples of forward-looking in a Sentence
a forward-looking business plan designed to take full advantage of emerging technologies
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Emerald stepped in post-construction, analyzed the building’s performance, and started asking the forward-looking questions the client had not known to ask.
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Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
Beyond its role as an exhibition space, the pavilion showed that Southeast Asia is moving from a passive participant in climate discussions to an active agenda-setter with a coordinated and forward-looking approach.
—Natalie Sum Yue Chung, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
The Iceberg Index, which was announced earlier this year, offers a forward-looking view of how AI may reshape the labor market, not just in coastal tech hubs but across every state in the country.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2025
More reactionary than conservative, their political ancestry is in the underground of the American right—Strom Thurmond, Joseph McCarthy, Patrick Buchanan—rather than the forward-looking Reaganite libertarians who dominated the Republican Party for four decades.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2025
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Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
Beyond its role as an exhibition space, the pavilion showed that Southeast Asia is moving from a passive participant in climate discussions to an active agenda-setter with a coordinated and forward-looking approach.
—Natalie Sum Yue Chung, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
The Iceberg Index, which was announced earlier this year, offers a forward-looking view of how AI may reshape the labor market, not just in coastal tech hubs but across every state in the country.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2025
More reactionary than conservative, their political ancestry is in the underground of the American right—Strom Thurmond, Joseph McCarthy, Patrick Buchanan—rather than the forward-looking Reaganite libertarians who dominated the Republican Party for four decades.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Forward-looking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forward-looking. Accessed 15 Dec. 2025.
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