The phrase "a proxy for future" is not entirely correct in English; it would be better as "a proxy for the future." You can use it when discussing something that serves as a substitute or representative for future events or outcomes.
Example: "The current trends in technology are often seen as a proxy for the future of innovation in the industry."
Alternatives: "a stand-in for the future" or "a representative of future trends."
Building permits, a proxy for future construction, jumped 10.9 percent.
Orders for nonmilitary capital goods excluding aircraft -- seen as a proxy for future business spending -- fell 0.4percentt.
Bookings for nonmilitary capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for future business investment, rose 3.9percentt last month after falling 0.1percentt in August.
Orders for nonmilitary capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for future investment, jumped 3.2percentt last month after a 2.5percentt decline.
Orders for nonmilitary capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for future business investment, increased 4.5percentt after rising 2.3percentthehe previous month.
Orders for nonmilitary capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for future business investment, increased after a revised 0.3 percent decrease in July.
In our opinion, Google's growth trajectory post 2004 could be a proxy for FB future growth rate – given what are similar growth end-markets in Internet advertising.
In other words, the Delphi study outputs were used as a proxy for the future supply of educational technology for the next 4 years, whereas the analysis of the network use was used to project the future demand for educational technology by Plan Ceibal's users.
As PRII director explained: "If you're using a generational snapshot today as a proxy for the future, it is is safe to say that religious progressives hold a stronger appeal among Millennials".
The estimates of diabetes prevalence reported in this paper are believed to be more realistic compared with the estimates reported by the IDF and the Global prevalence of diabetes estimates which were critiqued for under estimating the prevalence of diabetes, probably as a result of using only demographic trends and urbanisation as a proxy for diabetes future incidence.
As the authors point out, while the past statistical performance of baseball players isn't a perfect proxy for future performance, it is a pretty good predictor of future salary, which is what matters for the study.
