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Recent Examples of provident My brother-in-law was not what one calls a provident father. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2024 For example, many cities have begun allowing parents to help their children buy an apartment using their housing provident funds, a kind of compulsory saving program in China. Jacky Wong, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022 Its pilots are angry over not having received the company’s contribution towards their provident fund since 2020, even as pay cuts continue. Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 13 July 2022 Social Security would likely be replaced also with a provident-fund system, basically a private retirement account with mandatory contributions, with backup provisions if this proves to be insufficient in old age. Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021 That led to another announcement this spring, which prevented people from using BN(O) passports for the early withdrawal of mandatory provident funds (MPFs). Michelle Toh and Kristie Lu Stout, CNN, 26 Aug. 2021 The deficits, however, demand a more provident approach to the ballooning defense budget (now larger than everything else in the federal discretionary budget combined). Jessica T. Mathews, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020 The combined employer-and-employee contribution rates into the city’s central provident fund – the main pension plan – currently drop from 37% at 55 years of age to as low as 12.5% for older workers. Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for provident
Adjective
  • Ink-tank printers looked poised to become the better, more economical choice for the future of printing.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
  • At a certain point, the discussion and decision becomes purely economical.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • During the preview, a mischievous group of young diplodocus splash in the water around a pair of kayaking guests, while other juveniles like the triceratops are more cautious in nature, choosing to stick close to their parents.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The Dodgers are being cautious.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • These treatments require careful and ongoing monitoring.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • At this point, a prudent President would have stayed silent.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And for a program run by a nation-state or a billionaire that doesn't want to have a rocket blow up, this is prudent.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Since the start of Breast Cancer Awareness initiatives in 1985, over 517,000 lives have been saved from better treatment and proactive screening, according to the American Cancer Society.
    Dr. Noor Shaik, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The current set of players United have at the back simply don’t look comfortable with this brand of proactive, front-footed defending, where mistiming even slightly can cause the structure to collapse.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • No matter what compromises Lucas and our farsighted mayor at the time, Rahm Emanuel, offered, there was no compromise from this group.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
  • Eastwood’s farsighted plan also involved advancing his acting career.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • While that message was certainly prescient—and one that the Party should not abandon entirely—Allsop also believes there’s room to adopt a more concrete platform against specific examples of élite corruption or the trampling of civil liberties.
    Erin Neil, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Writer/director James DeMonaco created a nightmare for our times — one that, in hindsight, feels frighteningly prescient.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Provident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provident. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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