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  • Her speech was filled with retrospective reflections on the company’s early struggles.
    retrospective = looking back on the past
  • She'd seen a retrospective of his work and decided he was hugely overrated.  (source)
    retrospective = an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
  • On this late night, not only was my radio working but the station was also hosting a retrospective on the music of Sly and the Family Stone.  (source)
    retrospective = selection that looked back
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  • Lately, however, his sensibilities had become more retrospective, replacing the gadgetry with walnut dashes and leather upholstery.  (source)
    retrospective = focused on the past
  • Retrospectively, he was rather green in the Commissioner's lifetime, and some ways, for his years, unformed.  (source)
    Retrospectively = in looking back
  • An oldies station was doing what they kept calling a Major Monkees Retrospective.  (source)
    Retrospective = a look back on the band's work
  • It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.  (source)
    retrospectively = when looking back
  • I scan the first paragraph: "Eminent artist Elaine Risley returns to hometown Toronto this week for a long-overdue retrospective."  (source)
    retrospective = an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
  • Nor did he sigh retrospectively, when he viewed the equally pleasant, but not wholly satisfying vista of the past decade.†  (source)
  • You see, we both either get out of here alive, or we disappear, our mortal remains consigned to a Chinese fire, no past, no present — certainly no retrospective regarding our sub-zero contributions to society ...  (source)
    retrospective = looking back
  • But when I look back, retrospectively as it were—you know what I mean?†  (source)
  • We watched a spaghetti-western retrospective there last month.  (source)
    retrospective = look back (at a body of work)
  • Mr. Jaggers nodded his head retrospectively two or three times, and actually drew a sigh.†  (source)
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