farseeing

Example Sentences

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Weather forecasting has gotten steadily more accurate and farseeing over the past few decades, one of the many ways that science saves lives.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg had been named Time’s person of the year in 2010; in the hagiographic cover photo, his eyes were oceanic and farseeing, dreaming up ingenious new ways to forge human bonds.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2020

Early in the sound era, Irving Thalberg, the farseeing head of production at MGM, rechristened them “film editors,” a credit first bestowed upon, and quite possibly designed for, Margaret Booth.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018

Recorded several months before the election, the album feels farseeing if not prophetic in its accounting of current affairs.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2016

He Praised the wise farseeing eyes of Eye and the keen hearing of Ear.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer