How to Use farsighted in a Sentence

farsighted

adjective

• From our vantage, this may sound very farsighted and bold.
  — Mary L. Trump, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• And the girl and the boy in the Dodge Charger were exceptionally farsighted.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• But a more farsighted commander-in-chief would be adding to their armour.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• Costly and no fun, but surely the farsighted and responsible thing to do.
  — Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• But long-term insurance buyers turned out to be a more determined and farsighted group.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• It’s time for a more farsighted approach and more imagination.
  — Tamar Jacoby, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• One way to limit pollution is to put a price on it, a point not lost on at least one farsighted industry executive.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
• This summer, the federal agency that regulates Wall Street will take a farsighted move.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2019
• And much of this revolution was due, once again, to U.S. public-private partnerships and decades of farsighted effort.
  — Noah Smith Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 22 Nov. 2020
• The British Library recently had the glasses examined, and found that the lenses were convex, suggesting a farsighted wearer.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2017
• Lasik surgeons use an ultraviolet laser to reduce the curvature of the cornea for people who are nearsighted, and to accent it for people who are farsighted.
  — Author: Roni Caryn Rabin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2018
• Mazor, a farsighted tech genius in his career, stepped back in time when designing his Ashland residence.
  — oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2021
• Bill Sorro Community is built to last — a model of farsighted redevelopment that shows progress can be made.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2017
• Expecting the slow but steady ramp-up of in-the-know habitues and farsighted home buyers to continue as more stylish businesses and artist communities settle there, Frey has decided to open her studio to the public.
  — Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2018
• The golf club was quiet, almost serene, in comparison with the weekend hubbub at the Mar-a-Lago Club, where every seat and barstool is unavailable for the rest of the season, except for those members who were farsighted enough to reserve months ago.
  — Shannon Donnelly, ajc, 10 Apr. 2017
• Sadly, one looks in vain for such farsighted and resolute leaders in Western capitals today.
  — WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• Fries thinks what sets those farsighted people apart has something to do with ignoring conventional wisdom.
  — Greg Miller, WIRED, 28 May 2014
• And from a broader economic standpoint, the farsighted companies also created a lot more jobs than other firms did during the same period.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 21 May 2018
• Some growth stems from a commitment by governments and farsighted businesses to fund cleaner energy sources.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2017
• These insights enable companies to make farsighted assessments, giving them a strong foundation in their markets.
  — Jon Miller, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• The Japanese American leader, whose soft-spoken mien belied powerful drive and farsighted vision, rose to national prominence in the nonprofit world as board chair of the Ford and Kresge foundations.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• And her farsighted concept for popular entertainment — coupled with how the industry should produce that entertainment — is an ethos the rest of Hollywood is still catching up to today.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
• But hindsight is 20/20, unlike her vision, was which decidedly farsighted.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2020
• It is rooted partly in the never-lose structure of modern executive compensation packages, but also in two farsighted investments made long ago by one of Yahoo’s founders, Jerry Yang.
  — Vindu Goel, New York Times, 3 June 2017
• Or perhaps farsighted trading algorithms simply enjoy a sagacity that Twitter users do not.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 10 Apr. 2017
• Some commentators praised it as farsighted; others criticized it as reckless.
  — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 31 July 2017
• Our research has found that preparedness requires not just funding but also farsighted, credible and transparent leadership and citizens’ trust in that leadership.
  — Bhaskar Chakravorti, The Conversation, 6 May 2020
• In his reports on public credit, a national bank and manufacturing, Hamilton sketched out a farsighted vision for securing the nation’s economic future, with an active role for the federal government.
  — Jay Cost, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• Today’s advocates of continuing U.S. global leadership and engagement need to keep in mind both parts of Truman’s achievement: formulating a farsighted national strategy to address the issues of the day and then educating the public to support it.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 21 July 2017
• The president has repeatedly noted that his administration threw the might of the federal government behind vaccine development, a farsighted move that contrasted with its now nearly yearlong failure to curb the pandemic’s spread.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2020

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