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hindsight

[hahynd-sahyt] / ˈhaɪndˌsaɪt /


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Looking back, with hindsight, Overton - nicknamed Dell - thinks Uden did start to become controlling.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

“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

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, it was as foolish as taunting an angry bull.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss


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