retrospective
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Samples from athletes are kept for 10 years to allow for retrospective testing when new techniques emerge.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 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
MoMA’s show also nods to its own history with the power couple: Rivera received the museum’s second-ever retrospective in 1931, after Henri Matisse, and Kahlo entered the collection in 1943.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
This retrospective cohort study included 7,938 adults with overweight or obesity in Ohio and Florida.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
But historians are nevertheless able to evaluate related hypotheses by retrospective tests.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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