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retrospective

[re-truh-spek-tiv] / ˌrɛ trəˈspɛk tɪv /
ADJECTIVE
backward-looking
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ADJECTIVE
concerned with past
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Example Sentences

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Elaine Risley, an artist in Vancouver, returns to her hometown of Toronto, where a gallery is exhibiting a retrospective of her paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal

The museum devotes a retrospective to the work of the itinerant Cuban-born artist, who sought to merge his far-flung array of influences into a singular personal style.

From The Wall Street Journal

“What we now call ‘Italian cuisine’ is a retrospective construction, projected backwards as if it had always existed,” he says.

From Salon

Her 76th and final show will not be a "retrospective, but full of nods" to her past work, she told Madame Figaro magazine in early January.

From Barron's

A hundred years after her birth, a retrospective of Plymouth artist Beryl Cook's work is being put on in her adopted home city.

From BBC