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forward-thinking

[fawr-werd-thing-king] / ˈfɔr wərdˌθɪŋ kɪŋ /


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Forward-thinking organizations are already requiring such change, embedding adaptability into their cultural DNA.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Forward-thinking officials could focus their outreach — and enforcement efforts, if necessary — on those people.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2021

Forward-thinking organizations such as Woolly Mammoth and the Geffen want to know that, too.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2020

Forward-thinking musicians have challenged assumptions about what qualifies as country music — about what is “authentically” country — nearly since the beginning.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2019

Forward-thinking people anticipate a great advance which will be made by the girls of the twentieth century in the management of homes.

From The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance by Willison, Marjory MacMurchy, Lady




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