proactively
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- When you do something proactively, you do it ahead of time, because that will help prevent or solve a problem.
- Our school started a program that proactively identifies students that might need extra help. This works much better than waiting for a student to have problems learning before we try to help.
- When she was too sick to work, Siobhan worried that she would forget her job skills. So she proactively studied and practiced those skills to keep herself from forgetting them.