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looking back

noun as in hindsight

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So I was looking back at the years, and that really popped out at me, those three years.

“Looking back now, she really is the one who said, ‘This is genius,’” von Furstenberg recalls.

“It was a very emotional moment for me,” he says looking back.

I was going along OK, but looking back, I was filled with anger and took it out on my first wife and made her life miserable.

And looking back is a way of imagining that that had turned out differently.

Looking back now it seems to me the office staff was in some ways a curious collection and very different to the clerks of to-day.

Looking back through the rear window, he saw Carlson turn up a narrow walk between two tenement buildings.

Clip had already started, but was going slow and looking back to see if his help would be needed.

Marguerite's beautiful eyes seemed to be looking back in memory, but she could not, or seemed not to, remember.

In looking back over a wasted life, many a person can see that his or her downfall had its origin in the first novel.

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On this page you'll find 159 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to look back, such as: bear in mind, conjure up, dig into the past, have memories, recall, and recollect.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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