hindsight

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My generation got to witness all three in their prime, but only in hindsight can we fully appreciate their accomplishments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

He says the updated supply deal “is obvious in hindsight given the continued and escalating tensions between China and Japan.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

But in this instance, hindsight does not make us clairvoyant so much as blind to the ghosts and goblins that floated above the political landscape in the 1790s.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis