hindsight
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“In hindsight, you’ll always be able to learn from it. I’ll never hang onto whether you want to say it was a mistake or just different things to be able to kind of change course.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said: "In hindsight, that would have been a good idea."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Just the explanation that the verification system was down — an explanation that, in hindsight, seems to have concealed the more important fact that my coverage had already ended three days earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
But with a quarter-century of hindsight, asking the mayor to remove himself from a solemn commemoration of the greatest tragedy to ever occur in his city is unfathomable.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
In hindsight, we find it astonishing that Atahuallpa marched into Pizarro’s obvious trap at Cajamarca.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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