in retrospect

LOOKING BACK, on reflection, in/with hindsight.

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in retrospect phrase

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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in retrospect

: 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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in retrospect idiom

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

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In retrospect, I think that I was wrong.

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The decision seems extremely odd, in retrospect.

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