hindsight
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“Why should we have to move because these men around us can’t behave and are heckling and harassing me. No, we’re going back. In hindsight, I wish we would have left.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
To qualify as folly for this inquiry, the policy adopted must meet three criteria: it must have been perceived as counter-productive in its own time, not merely by hindsight .
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
When asked whether she should have tried to arrest him immediately, Quinn said "In hindsight, yes".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
“In hindsight, it was a horrible decision,” Urschel says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Kuhn held that the fact that the outcome of a revolutionary crisis is unpredictable while it is going on means that it cannot be explained with the benefit of hindsight.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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