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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Expanding the trend will look foolishly dangerous in hindsight, whatever short-term ease on energy prices there is.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 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

Why did Atahuallpa walk into what seems to us, with the gift of hindsight, to have been such a transparent trap?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond