prospectively
- adverb
- /prəˈspɛktɪvli/
- We should prepare prospectively for potential challenges in the upcoming project to ensure success.
- prospectively studied
- prospectively evaluated
- prospectively investigate
Examples
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The committee will prospectively review all applications for the new grant program starting next month.
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The operating room data were recorded prospectively as part of a continuous quality-improvement project.
Academic text (2007) -
Future research should investigate this issue prospectively, particularly for hazardous drinking.
Academic text (2009) -
Patients were included prospectively by using consecutive inclusion from January 2010 to December 2011 at each site.
Academic text (2015) -
All the provisions of Chapter 14 also apply prospectively to states and provinces.
Academic text (1990) -
Although we used a prospectively recruited sample, it was not population-based.
Academic text (2012) -
Patients were studied prospectively with regard to technical difficulty, complications, and cosmetic outcome.
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The present investigation was unique in that it prospectively examined motivational differences in participants preparing for their first marathon.
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During a 12-week period in 2013, we prospectively assessed these refinements using actual surveillance data.
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In addition to national epidemiologic surveillance, we prospectively collected clinical information for all laboratory-confirmed infections.
Academic text (2012)
Antonyms
How Future-Focused
Surface Forms
Morphology
prospectively = prospective (transparent) = prospect + ive + ly
Adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'prospective' yields the straightforward meaning 'in a prospective/future-oriented way'.
Etymology
Prospectively comes from the parts pro- meaning 'forward' and spect meaning 'to look', the same root you see in inspect. So, to act prospectively is to 'look forward' and plan or think about the future.