retrospective
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There can be no retrospective action as VAR has effectively made it obsolete in the Premier League.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis using electronic health records.
From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 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
Normally on display at Paris's Musee d'Orsay it has been lent to Vienna's Leopold Museum for the retrospective.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
I find it improbable, and ominous: first the retrospective, then the morgue.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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