in retrospect

in retrospect
LOOKING BACK, on reflection, in/with hindsight.

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considering something that happened in the past, using knowledge or information that you did not have at that time

In retrospect, we should never have allowed that to happen.

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when looking back on a past event or situation; with hindsight

perhaps, in retrospect, I shouldn't have gone

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: when thinking about the past or something that happened in the past

In retrospect, I made the right decision.

What is interesting in retrospect is how wrong our assumptions were.

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thinking about a past event or situation, often with a different opinion of it from the one you had at the time

In retrospect, I think that I was wrong.

The decision seems extremely odd, in retrospect.

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