retrospect

Example Sentences

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"Please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance. No detail is too small. It may be the key."

From BBC

“In retrospect, the presence and credibility of such venerable people in different orbits led me to make assumptions about him that clouded my judgment in ways it shouldn’t have.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The fact is you only know on something like this in retrospect.

From The Wall Street Journal

But in retrospect it was a matter of when, not if.

From Barron's

In retrospect, it looks even worse than that.

From Salon