backward-looking

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For the LFI's Fourreau, the banquets are "backward-looking – a caricature".

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Whatever the case, GDP is backward-looking, and doesn’t tell us much about what is going on in the economy now.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

He added that central banks’ reliance on backward-looking economic data meant they were likely “to dawdle, rather than hike.”

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

That view has flipped, the analyst says, with geopolitics now overshadowing backward-looking 1Q results, though he says singled-out “outsized surprises” are still possible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

This backward-looking astronomer had been born in 1611, which perhaps explains his old-fashioned attitude, and christened Johann Höwelcke, but Latinized his name to Johannes Hevelius.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin