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- adverb In a
farsighted manner.
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Examples
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A memorable event occurred in 1854 when Riemann farsightedly set forth this duality in his renowned
SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
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They thought -- very cautiously and farsightedly -- of picking us, if it seemed wise.
Herland 1915
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The defects of Madison as a War-President he had long foreseen; the need of reorganizing the Executive Departments he had pointed out as soon as war became inevitable; and the problem of financing the war he had attacked farsightedly, fearlessly, and without regard to political consistency.
Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900
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The ideal pecuniary man is like the ideal delinquent in his unscrupulous conversion of goods and persons to his own ends, and in a callous disregard of the feelings and wishes of others and of the remoter effects of his actions; but he is unlike him in possessing a keener sense of status, and in working more consistently and farsightedly to a remoter end.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899
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They thought -- very cautiously and farsightedly -- of picking us, if it seemed wise.
Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897
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The ideal pecuniary man is like the ideal delinquent in his unscrupulous conversion of goods and persons to his own ends, and in a callous disregard of the feelings and wishes of others and of the remoter effects of his actions; but he is unlike him in possessing a keener sense of status, and in working more consistently and farsightedly to a remoter end.
Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1893
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