farsighted

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New York Fed President John Williams proved the most farsighted of all in his football — and economic — forecasts.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 17, 2026

President Lincoln, a-slog in the Civil War in the summer of 1862, was still farsighted enough to sign the Pacific Railway Act for building the transcontinental railway.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2023

When Bahar came up with her vision of creating a biodiversity map for an educational institution, a university campus, it was one-of-a-kind, farsighted and, most importantly, truly local.

From Scientific American • May 20, 2023

But the farsighted and analytical statesman did manage to wrest his own homeland from the grip of czarism and from two other powers, Austria and Prussia.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022

And what appears in retrospect like a prudent and farsighted vision of the national interest looked to Jefferson like a betrayal of the American Revolution.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis