hindsight

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But they were important component parts of it, and in hindsight, they told us something important: that women were showing up, online and off, advocating for themselves and each other.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

Instead, they attempt to judge plan investment results with improper second-guessing in hindsight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In hindsight, one can wonder if these choices were wise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

“In hindsight I would rather we’d never have gone,” Atkinson told me.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

That I Pagliacci was only fifteen years old when Caruso popularised it on record - young in relation to opera’s extensive back catalogue - is, with the benefit of hindsight, strangely significant.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall