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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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The singer, who appeared on series one of Celebrity Traitors, applied for retrospective permission in October 2025, but that was refused.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Toward the end of “Tracey Emin: A Second Life,” a career-spanning retrospective of the influential—and once-controversial—British artist, hangs a neon sign from 2010 that reads: “I whisper to My Past Do I have Another Choice.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

But a full retrospective at one of her hometown’s major museums eluded her.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

He said the curb on executive pay was "a start" but "not enough", adding that it would not be retrospective.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

“Confessions II” features intimate retrospectives of Madonna’s career and personal life — rare, clear-eyed visits to the past from an artist who has always preferred to keep her eyes on the future.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

As exhibitions, books and retrospectives built his renown, Hockney increasingly relied on travel—to Paris and elsewhere—so he could work undisturbed before friends and others crowded his schedule.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Their December lineup includes a spotlight on Parker Posey; retrospectives dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu and Ousmane Sembène; and some holiday noir, MGM musicals and “Hitchcock for the Holidays.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 20, 2023

Perhaps this is part of why the last decade has brought a revival of Hassinger’s work, including two retrospectives, new commissions and the acquisition of her archive by the Getty Research Institute.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 7, 2023

By the 2000s, Ms. Steiner found her work the subject of career retrospectives at the Leica Gallery in New York, the PhotoAlicante art festival in Spain and elsewhere.

From New York Times Jun. 18, 2023




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