Example Sentences

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Prospectively, this is a small figure compared to the 2.5 billion people sized problem.

From Forbes • Dec. 9, 2014

Prospectively, our summers are short here in the Pacific Northwest.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2014

Prospectively, of course, I'm looking for laws that I think are pro-consumer.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2010

Prospectively redoubtable Army was none too redoubtable against Boston University and Detroit on its first two Saturdays.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prospectively poorer by something more than four hundred dollars, Banneker emerged from Mertoun's with his mentor.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins