hindsight
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“Why should we have to move because these men around us can’t behave and are heckling and harassing me. No, we’re going back. In hindsight, I wish we would have left.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
“In hindsight, companies probably overhired,” said Stahle at Indeed.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
To qualify as folly for this inquiry, the policy adopted must meet three criteria: it must have been perceived as counter-productive in its own time, not merely by hindsight .
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
When asked whether she should have tried to arrest him immediately, Quinn said "In hindsight, yes".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Given that this book relies in part on hindsight, many historians will feel justified in condemning it as an example of Whig history.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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