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

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

It was only with hindsight that they came to symbolize a new era; and it was the Scientific Revolution itself which was chiefly responsible for the Enlightenment’s conviction that progress had become unstoppable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton