foresight
noun
care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
foresightful
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a word derived from
foresight.
Example Sentences
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“What the community has done already is amazingly foresightful and visionary, whether it’s the tribe, the school district or the city of Westport itself.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Nevertheless, its many proponents say, it is a powerful, foresightful law that we could implement more wisely and effectively, perhaps especially to foster stewardship among private landowners.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
But, though an old West Pointer, he was neither a foresightful organizer nor fit to exercise any of the executive power which he held as the constitutional commander-in-chief by land and sea.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood
The men who did the tasks were not creatures of the day, but foresightful beyond the average of mortals.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
