retrospect
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It’s easy, in retrospect, to reverse-engineer other people’s finances, and say, “This is where you went wrong. Why couldn’t you see that at the time?”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
"On retrospect, we should have done what you're suggesting," Kwon said, in response to a question by the committee on why it had not dialled the mobile numbers of government ministers.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
In retrospect, she looks more like the archetypal establishment tribune—brilliant at reading and managing insider consensus but incapable of noticing when the consensus itself had become the problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
In retrospect, the shift from exalting those canceled for words to championing those canceled for alleged criminal behavior was inevitable.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
No one had believed it when Dad said yes, but in retrospect it was entirely characteristic for my father to move, in the space of a day, from no TV or radio to full-blown cable.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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