How to Use proactively in a Sentence

proactively

adverb

• These are a few ways to proactively prevent root rot.
  — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2026
• Why isn’t the city more proactively searching?
  — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2025
• Share your progress proactively.
  — Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Some people did reach out proactively for others.
  — Gillian Russell, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
• In turn, this slows down the aging process and proactively prevents damage to cells.
  — Katie Intner, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2023
• If someone is facing challenges, reach out proactively by phone or email.
  — Lee Woodruff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• Armed with that insight, Aflac’s sales team could take steps proactively to retain those clients.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
• Plan time away proactively, not as a recovery after going too hard for too long.
  — Jacob Kupietzky, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Document your wins and share them proactively.
  — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Some observers would proactively move chairs and obstacles to clear a path for the robots.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• In short, let one of them make the mistake instead of proactively making it yourself.
  — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• In an ideal world, the rest of the group will proactively suggest that the person who isn’t drinking pay less.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 25 Aug. 2023
• During his time at his sister’s, Michael proactively tries to pawn the kids off on others.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
• But in the event that does not happen, countries must intervene proactively.
  — Liyam Chitayat, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2025
• In other words, the system did not proactively address the issue.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Jan. 2026
• City leaders are discussing it proactively and working to combat it.
  — Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2025
• The proposal would require creators to proactively opt out to stop their work being used.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2025
• Google will then sift through its search results and proactively show you the ones that contain that information.
  — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 27 Feb. 2025
• Pivot team officers use data to proactively target crime hot spots across the city.
  — David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Oct. 2025
• That means companies and managers have to think proactively about how to prepare their workers.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 June 2024
• The key will launch Copilot by default, so people will need to proactively change it to something else.
  — Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 23 Sep. 2024
• Problems are predictable, so they can be identified and solved proactively.
  — Ross W. Greene, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
• And most of the time, doctors don’t proactively administer them.
  — Hannah Docter-Loeb, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
• Now your Friday nights are wide open, but instead of wallowing alone, proactively call your friends and make plans.
  — Jenny McCoy, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2024
• There’s so many ways in which fire managers and people thinking proactively about how to deal with the fire problem are learning from tribes.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2025
• Ebright wrote last year that the surest way to prevent the act from being abused would be for Congress to proactively repeal it.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
• Here’s how leaders can proactively prevent HR burnout.
  — Dana Kellerman, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• This shortage has caused some pain at the cash register and caused some businesses to proactively seek pennies.
  — Rin Velasco, The Providence Journal, 17 Jan. 2026
• What's worked for me is connecting proactively, starting with my friends and family who are going through tough times.
  — Katharine Esty, CNBC, 11 June 2025
• Press play above to find out (and also proactively lament the talking-to Amy is going to get afterwards).
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 3 Feb. 2025