hindsight
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People have different views of it today, but everything is different in hindsight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Twenty years later, I have no regrets about any of that, but plenty of hindsight.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 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 then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vocabulary lists containing hindsight
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