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retrospect
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retrospect as in:  in retrospect, it is clear...

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  • Retrospect of course, on my part: at the time I recognized none of this.†  (source)
  • In retrospect, it wasn't so surprising that Josh would like Margot, since he's that kind of guy too.†  (source)
  • In retrospect, our vacation was like a family camp and everyone was sad to leave.†  (source)
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  • In retrospect, that was the worst thing they could have done.†  (source)
    retrospect = to review with hindsight
  • The woman did not see well, or saw two things where one occurred, and her hand on the child's face seemed to work a marvel of retrospection.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Your retrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentment arising from them is not of philosophy, but, what is much better, of innocence.†  (source)
  • And in retrospect, she was perfectly right.†  (source)
  • A period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both.†  (source)
  • And there, as they slowly paced the gradual ascent, heedless of every group around them, seeing neither sauntering politicians, bustling housekeepers, flirting girls, nor nursery-maids and children, they could indulge in those retrospections and acknowledgements, and especially in those explanations of what had directly preceded the present moment, which were so poignant and so ceaseless in interest.†  (source)
  • It occurs to me in retrospect that someone might have told Professor Steinberg about me, perhaps Dr. Kerry.†  (source)
  • As the Marchioness Manson rose to her climax her face assumed an expression of ecstatic retrospection which would have moved Archer's mirth had he not been numb with amazement.†  (source)
  • They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses, Strong and sweet shall their tongues be, poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives, they shall be makers and finders, Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels, Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd in gospels, trees, animals, waters, shall be convey'd, Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd.†  (source)
  • In retrospect, and having now seen the child in question at various school functions and in the class pictures, I think it may have been too much to ask of our children to be able to process all that.†  (source)
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