as in cautious
having or showing awareness of and preparation for the future
a forward-looking business plan designed to take full advantage of emerging technologies
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Recent Examples of forward-looking
Across Asia-Pacific and emerging markets, forward-looking executives are learning that resilience and growth go hand in hand.
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Marcus Balzereit, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
But the 2026 Programmers’ Jam felt remarkably forward-looking.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 May 2026
On Play Monk, Monk’s songbook presents a jumping-off point for further experimentation with the unknown, an approach both syncretic and forward-looking.
—Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 11 May 2026
By Michelle Edgar This week, the City of Santa Clarita transformed Central Park into an immersive, citywide celebration that blended Star Wars film, fandom and forward-looking civic strategy.
—Daily News, 8 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for forward-looking
Marcus Balzereit, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
But the 2026 Programmers’ Jam felt remarkably forward-looking.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 May 2026
On Play Monk, Monk’s songbook presents a jumping-off point for further experimentation with the unknown, an approach both syncretic and forward-looking.
—Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 11 May 2026
By Michelle Edgar This week, the City of Santa Clarita transformed Central Park into an immersive, citywide celebration that blended Star Wars film, fandom and forward-looking civic strategy.
—Daily News, 8 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for forward-looking
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forward-looking
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While many major stock indexes have erased losses incurred at the start of the Iran war, government bonds have largely taken a more cautious approach, continuing to price in higher inflation and widespread interest rate hikes.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
20 May 2026
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Japan’s Foreign Ministry issued a safety advisory for Japanese citizens in China to be cautious and attentive, avoid going out alone and take care when accompanying children.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 May 2026
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Despite criticism that zero income taxes only benefit high-earners, the Sunshine State’s booming economy and positive migration trends are evidence that such policies merit careful consideration by policymakers nationwide.—
Nicole Huyer,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 May 2026
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But a careful reading of the S-1 reveals substantial barriers in the path to achieving the sorcerous performance required to reward shareholders who flock to the most anticipated debut ever seen.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
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These platforms rest on an assumption that proactive state policy can significantly improve living standards, not merely soften an inevitable downturn, and offer voters more optimistic — if sharply divergent — diagnoses and cures than the pervasive resignation captured in the article.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
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And the women were just carrying on and becoming more proactive.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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Again, that feels like an eerily prescient message for our own time.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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Bonus points for prescient insights into the dark side of obsessive super-fandom.—
Laura Zigman,
PEOPLE,
2 May 2026
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Aging will go much further toward happiness and satisfaction if the more farsighted among them will begin to organize societies for self-help and self-direction, rather than for the promotion of economic experiments of unknown dimensions and unforeseeable consequences.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
21 Apr. 2026
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These word assemblages could then be linked to one another or branch off in entirely new directions—a farsighted idea for the time.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
12 Dec. 2025
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Much more rarely — in fact, corresponding exactly to the release rate of movies by visionary German director Valeska Grisebach — the brilliance goes bone-deep, emerging from an astonishingly new and strange filmic architecture.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
22 May 2026
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Since the ‘90s, Kedar Massenburg has occupied a unique space in Black music culture — part visionary, part architect, part cultural preservationist.—
Datwon Thomas,
VIBE.com,
22 May 2026
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“Forward-looking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forward-looking. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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