hindsight
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He added: "With the benefit of hindsight, would that have made a difference to the outcome? I don't think so. The events that occurred to these babies were events that occurred after they were born."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
I didn’t specifically say Venice, and in hindsight, I probably should have.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
All financial bacchanals end when an event, often minor but only obvious in hindsight, sets off an uncontrollable chain reaction.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
It might not have felt reassuring at the time, but it does in hindsight, which is how history is assessed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Kuhn’s distinction between two types of science was too neat, but his basic approach was sound: sometimes, as we have seen, one discovery leads to another in a way which is, with hindsight, entirely inevitable.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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