Timeline for Prospective means future-looking, retrospective means past-looking. What means present-looking?
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| May 21, 2023 at 15:27 | history | edited | Heartspring |
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| Mar 17, 2023 at 7:07 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 20:13 | comment | added | m.a.a. | Not sure how you define facetious, but instaspective might do the trick... | |
| Feb 15, 2023 at 9:42 | comment | added | Stuart F | Do you specifically want something ending "spective"? There are a lot of words that would fit, but none matching that pattern. | |
| Feb 15, 2023 at 6:59 | answer | added | alphabet | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 14, 2023 at 22:42 | comment | added | jsw29 | I assume that by 'grants' in the sample sentence you mean applications for (research) grants (using the term in that way may be common in some circles, but is likely to be confusing to those outside them). | |
| Feb 14, 2023 at 21:47 | comment | added | Barmar | @alphabet If I understand it, they're saying that grants are based on what the applicant has done in the past or present, not what they're expected to do in the future. | |
| Feb 14, 2023 at 20:53 | comment | added | John Lawler | Circumspect, no -ive necessary. But it describes behavior, not recollection or prediction. | |
| Feb 14, 2023 at 19:58 | comment | added | MarcInManhattan | Note that your second question (asking people to coin a neologism) is usually considered off-topic here. | |
| Feb 14, 2023 at 19:47 | comment | added | alphabet | What is the overall intended meaning of the sentence? I'm not sure what you mean by "prospective" and "retrospective" in context. | |
| Feb 14, 2023 at 19:13 | history | edited | user90664 |
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| Feb 14, 2023 at 19:08 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Literal;ly, circumspective means "looking all around" - but figuratively speaking, being here, present has close associations with being "watchful, circumspective". | |
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