forward-thinking

[ fawr-werd-thing-king ]
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adjective
  1. planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.

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How to use forward-thinking in a sentence

  • He fell back exhausted, and we all pressed forward thinking that he must be dead, he lay so still.

    Mugby Junction | Charles Dickens
  • The development of the full possibilities of new weapons is an important source of forward thinking.

    Sound Military Decision | U.s. Naval War College
  • That he thought also in terms that Lee Harvey Oswald would be associated with this forward thinking?

    Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • The inspector leaned forward thinking, his large hands clasped before him.

    The Woman in Black | Edmund Clerihew Bentley