retrospective
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Riz Ahmed stars in a contemporary ‘Hamlet,’ ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ is all grown up, the first American retrospective of Marcel Duchamp in 50 years, and more.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and now Raphael: New York's prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicating a retrospective to the third of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
This retrospective cohort study included 7,938 adults with overweight or obesity in Ohio and Florida.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
It was sold at auction by Christie's in 2014 for more than £2.5m, but has now been loaned back to Tate Modern for its new retrospective, Tracey Emin: A Second Life.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
It is important here to distinguish between teleological history—the notion that history has a purpose or goal—and retrospective history, which seeks to study history as a process of development.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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