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

These fiduciaries are to be judged by the process they use to select investment alternatives, not second-guessed in hindsight.

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

"It's easy in hindsight, even if I was at 80% then at least the game would have given us an indicator of where I was."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

It is quite another to condemn all use of hindsight and to insist that the past should only be presented ‘in its own terms’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton