in retrospect

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Looking backward, reflecting on the past. For example, In retrospect, he regarded his move as the best thing he'd ever done . This idiom employs retrospect in the sense of “a view of the past.” [Second half of 1600s]

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In retrospect, the heyday of YA coincided with the golden age of the CW, which always seemed to have a dozen adaptations of YA novels in development at any given moment.

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One can reasonably argue, in retrospect, that Democrats should have taken Navarro’s arguments more seriously, while also acknowledging that his message was contaminated with too much paleocon weirdness.

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In retrospect, can you blame them?

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At least since the U.S.-EU split over the 2003 invasion of Iraq — in retrospect, the most obvious early symptoms of the impending transatlantic divorce — “antagonism toward Europe has been shaped by a highly sexualized binary opposition of American masculine potency to European feminine feebleness.”

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Indeed, the annals of stock market commentaries are replete with prognostications that, in retrospect, were almost comically wrong.

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in respect to in return

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