How to Use think ahead in a Sentence
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Try to carve out 20 to 30 minutes each week to think ahead.
—Avery Blank, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
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But there’s no need to think ahead to what a gold medal — any medal — would mean.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2021
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But there's no need to think ahead to what a gold medal — any medal — would mean.
—Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
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And, what to prepare for and think ahead about for your 2020 filing.
—Octavia Ramirez, refinery29.com, 28 May 2020
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Now, all the NCAA has to do is think ahead a little bit and give us what the state deserves.
—Matt Young, Chron, 12 Mar. 2021
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To get the most out of summer sales, shoppers have to think ahead — sometimes way ahead.
—Nerdwallet, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
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With that in mind, Awsumb said the current goal is to think ahead to that contingency.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
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Players need to think ahead of their opponents to create a sequence of chips.
—Kori Williams, Seventeen, 9 Dec. 2022
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CHROs not only have to think ahead but react quickly and smartly.
—Amber Burton, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
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Your ability to think ahead could come into play at any moment.
—Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
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To be good at it, contrarians think ahead and, like Elon Musk, envision a world that others can’t yet see.
—Andy Kessler, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
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Always think ahead, and asking for help is totally okay.
—Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2023
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Most people wouldn’t think ahead like this, which is why going to the big fancy dinner is fine for you in particular to do.
—Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 1 Dec. 2020
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Smart shoppers, this is also your moment to think ahead and recharge your sweater collection before those cool breezes start whipping in.
—Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 14 July 2022
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Too many of our children are in portable classrooms and the county needs to think ahead to get our schools up to better and equitable standards for learning.
—Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022
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To build a lifestyle brand, entrepreneurs need to think ahead about what’s valuable symbolically, and not have users or consumers think of the lifestyle as a buyable asset.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2022
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Having to concentrate, to play against someone else, strategy—having to think ahead.
—Gaby Wood, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2023
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To mitigate the amount of material that could fall back to Earth, many private companies and several of the world's space agencies are starting to think ahead.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2021
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The regions’ agricultural consultants have to think ahead.
—Aryn Baker, Time, 26 Jan. 2022
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Companies are already investing in this today, but Sweet said leaders need to be able to think ahead and really understand how those trends might affect the business.
—Bymegan Leonhardt, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
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The five-year Bucks veteran gives Kolek every benefit of the doubt in this teasing exchange, theorizing that Kolek is just so locked in to leading his team that the college junior probably didn’t think ahead.
—Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
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Parents often think ahead to their children’s high school graduation as the ultimate bookend to their lives together as a family unit.
—Tara Duggan, SFChronicle.com, 12 Dec. 2020
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However, blitzing Stroud can quickly backfire due to his ability to make pre-snap reads and think ahead to the resulting vulnerabilities in coverage.
—Nathan Baird, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
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Jamie Wagner, an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha and the director of its center for economic education, urged consumers to try to think ahead.
—Isabella Simonetti, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
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