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Forward-looking   /fˈɔrwərd-lˈʊkɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
forward-looking  adj.  Planning for the future; concerned primarily with the future; contrasted with conern for the immediate present or reacting to past events. backward-looking






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Forward-looking" Quotes from Famous Books



... literature, may caress himself with the notion that he is an immoralist, that his soul is full of soothing sin, that he has cut himself loose from the revelation of God. But all the while there is a part of him that remains a sound Christian, a moralist, a right thinking and forward-looking man. And that part, in times of stress, asserts itself. It may not worry him on ordinary occasions. It may not stop him when he swears, or takes a nip of whiskey behind the door, or goes motoring on Sunday; it may even let him alone when he goes to a leg-show. ...
— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken

... one of the forward-looking Institutes, and stunt night, crowded with most excellent fooling, produced two or three creditable and thought-provoking performances. One of them deserves remembering for its own sake. Besides, it is a ...
— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt



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