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retrospect
[ re-truh-spekt ]
noun
- contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
verb (used without object)
- to look back in thought; refer back (often followed by to ):
to retrospect to a period in one's youth.
verb (used with object)
- to look back upon; contemplate retrospectively.
retrospect
/ ˈ°ùÉ›³Ù°ùəʊˌ²õ±èÉ›°ì³Ù /
noun
- the act of surveying things past (often in the phrase in retrospect )
verb
- to contemplate (anything past); look back on (something)
- introften foll byto to refer
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Origin of retrospect1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of retrospect1
Idioms and Phrases
- in retrospect, in looking back on past events; upon reflection:
It was, in retrospect, the happiest day of her life.
Example Sentences
Indeed, the annals of stock market commentaries are replete with prognostications that, in retrospect, were almost comically wrong.
“In retrospect,†he said, he recognized that the change “created an undue burden on the people of Maine, which was not the intent.â€
“The relationship between their article and the gas vans was purely speculation, an invention of retrospect,†Dunthorne tells himself.
Such cheerful platitudes would carry a taint of irony, in retrospect, when authorities exposed the harm and suffering they alleged had been inflicted under Guo's watch.
In retrospect, the “Conor†moment in the Oval Office on March 12 looks like a set-up — or, more to the point, like a devious and especially petty work of MAGA-world chicanery.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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