retrospect
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In retrospect, it is a vivid artifact of fast food learning it could be much more than food.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Haynie said that in retrospect, the school might have been better off not constructing so much simultaneously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
“I was not happy, but that was so long ago in retrospect could we have won? I think so. Does it matter now? No.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
In retrospect, though, the president’s post was likely part of the gambit, helping him slip away aboard an entirely different plane.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
In retrospect, we made a comical pair of enforcers, a forty-something-year-old woman trailing an eleven-year- old boy.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
Vocabulary lists containing retrospect
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Common Senses: Spec, Spect, Spic ("Look")
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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