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retrospective

[re-truh-spek-tiv] / ˌrɛ trəˈspɛk tɪv /
ADJECTIVE
backward-looking
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ADJECTIVE
concerned with past
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To examine how well current tools perform, the researchers conducted a retrospective review of 474 patients younger than 66 who had no known coronary artery disease.

From Science Daily

They may well be the reason that Pissarro has not had a retrospective in the U.S. since 1981—which was also the first in many decades.

From The Wall Street Journal

By the 1990s, with The Beatles having settled their differences, the time was right for mounting the retrospective “Anthology.”

From Salon

In fact, when the painter mounted his own retrospective in Paris in 1932, he hung the works not according to chronology but jumbled together.

From The Wall Street Journal

The first retrospective devoted to Reed traces his life and work from his days as a graphic designer in the 1950s onward, outlining a pioneering, eight-decade career that ranged across mediums and movements.

From The Wall Street Journal