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

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

Former publisher Donald E. Graham described her as “brilliant, farseeing and gutsy,” a person who “shaped The Washington Post of the last 40 years as much as anyone.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2015

“Looking at the horizon helps,” yelled Maddie, her own farseeing eyes focused on the distant place where the battered gray land met tumultuous gray cloud.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein