(a.) Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate.
(n.) A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dysfunctional impulsivity is the tendency to act with less forethought than most people of equal ability when this tendency is a source of difficulty; most previous work on impulsivity appears to have focused on this trait.
(2) Rapists – deliberately and with forethought – use alcohol as a weapon in their assaults.
(3) No amount of forethought and attention to detail can guarantee the success of the Triangle.
(4) No, the price is not in monetary values, but the price of forethought, planning, good organization and effective use of that committee.
(5) Although our opening date has been delayed, I am confident that our forethought and preparation will result in a smooth transition and an efficient staff.
(6) The images published by the US newspaper revealed that the device that killed 22 people used by Salman Abedi had been made with “forethought and care”, raising questions for investigators about how it had been constructed and by whom.
(7) Functional impulsivity, in contrast, is the tendency to act with relatively little forethought when such a style is optimal.
(8) I can tell you the people that I’ve executed, when they committed crimes, they didn’t, wasn’t thinking about the death penalty and a lot of them were high, or a lot of them in the generation of people we’re dealing with today don’t have a lot of forethought about the end result,” he said.
(9) Manchester City – except they’ve planned it with skill and forethought, whereas we didn’t.
(10) Citing community feedback about the riots, the report concluded: "Either the violence was spontaneous without any degree of forethought or … a level of tension existed among sections of the community that was not identified through the community engagement."
(11) which might carry off "Lear" without forethought is not his, but if sheer acting ability and intelligence can make Lear live for us in the theatre, then Mr Redgrave's interpretation, taken wholly, is one of the most interesting and vivid lessons in the way to play the part.
(12) It is demonstrated, by analysing data taken from the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database, that zero crossing analysis can sometimes be used t distinguish between different arrhythmias, but forethought concerning the number of sum and difference operations to be taken on the original data set is required when computing the higher order crossing counts.
(13) The preparation of overlapping electron micrographs (particularly from transmission electron microscopy) requires special forethought in planning, exceptional skills in microscopy and photographic techniques, as well as in display preparations which are unique in their handling and execution.
(14) Trump blundered into it on Wednesday when, with little evidence of forethought, he said in a TV interview that abortion ought to be illegal and women who underwent such an illegal procedure should face “some sort of punishment”.
(15) The key to successful arthroscopic surgery is careful forethought, meticulous planning, constant education, and a dependable team.
(16) Selection of a nuclear medicine computer system is a process that should be approached with care and forethought.
(17) Although this method does not determine the actual drug concentration per se, subversion of the monitoring procedure for many solutions would require considerable forethought and scientific knowledge.
(18) However, many times medical problems occur which no amount of safety and forethought could have prevented.
Wariness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(2) Besides, Francis says, once their reformation had gone on longer than their initial career, the rest of the band were starting to feel wary about just playing the old material, particularly when they found themselves booked to play a Canadian casino, the kind of venue that is traditionally the preserve of oldies acts: "It was just sort of symbolic, like ha-ha, here we are, at the casino.
(3) But while France has plainly moved on from the days when François Hollande could say his true enemy was “the world of finance”, major players remain wary of the country’s rigid employment laws .
(4) But many inside these Asian nations are wary of efforts to make emerging economies break ranks.
(5) The head of the TUC, Frances O'Grady, said she supported the aims of the foundation, but was wary of endorsing changes that allowed retailers to squeeze under the wire without raising the pay of the lowest-paid workers.
(6) Yet whatever Jürgen Klinsmann’s understandable wariness about Portugal as a wounded animal, the USA coach might prefer to take his chances against a less-than-100% Ronaldo in the testing, Amazonian conditions in Manaus, no matter how good he is.
(7) He is wary of pretension, alive to all shades of irony.
(8) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
(9) Tinsley is also wary about believing that the EBacc will make a substantial difference to language learning.
(10) Other countries in Africa and indeed all over the world need to look closely at this experiment in Lesotho and be very wary of repeating it."
(11) I was told the Guardian had been too negative about Playboy in the past, and that they were also wary after a recent "trashing in the Sunday Times magazine – where Mr Hefner underwent a complete character assassination".
(12) The government faces a close-fought referendum on constitutional reforms later this year, on which Renzi’s political fate hinges, and is wary of angering small investors.
(13) The dispute has pushed together regional powers who a few years ago might have been as wary of neighbours with claims on the islands as they were of Beijing.
(14) Fashion editors and former employees are wary of talking in public about them.
(15) Obama and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) got off to a shaky start: the KRG, which mostly benefited from the US invasion of Iraq, was wary of an American president anxious to withdraw and detach from the country.
(16) I am wary – very clear – I really wonder where it's all going, all this with Barack.
(17) As well as the risk of attrition to the Tories, the Lib Dems will be mindful that traditional Labour voters will be wary of proposed Lib Dem cuts in public spending – an issue that promises to take centre stage at the next election.
(18) Hudson says social workers have been wary of media attention because they believe it only focuses on the negative.
(19) Mourinho’s pre-match utterances are generally best skimmed for the odd word not specifically dedicated to inflammatory falsehoods, but Chelsea’s manager was correct to offer some wary respect for the Football League’s champion club and here, lining up in a tightly knit 4-4-2, Leicester were sharp in the tackle early on, and pacy on the break throughout.
(20) With a few striking exceptions, such as William Dalrymple and Philip Hensher , contemporary writers have become wary of engaging with it in all its complicated, uneasy-making richness.