retrospect
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In retrospect, she looks more like the archetypal establishment tribune—brilliant at reading and managing insider consensus but incapable of noticing when the consensus itself had become the problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
I was excited to go, probably too excited in retrospect — like someone who had never been out before — but that’s OK.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Over the years, I have come to understand that we learn our parents’ histories slowly, often in fragments, and sometimes only in retrospect.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
In retrospect it was absurd, yet all summer we believed it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
It is easy to see things in retrospect.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing retrospect
Wonder
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Common Senses: Spec, Spect, Spic ("Look")
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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