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

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    In retrospect, it wasn't so surprising that Josh would like Margot, since he's that kind of guy too.†  (source)
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    Now, in retrospect, I realize that there were signs pointing to troubled times ahead.†  (source)
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    In retrospect, she supposed her actions had made a positive impression.†  (source)
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    In retrospect, that was probably not the line to lead with.†  (source)
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    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.
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    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)
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    In retrospect, that was the worst thing they could have done.†  (source)
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    Here besides the law of retrospection, which regards all the past as a preparation for events that subsequently occur, the law of reciprocity comes in, confusing the whole matter.†  (source)
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    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)
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    And in retrospect, she was perfectly right.†  (source)
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    A period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both.†  (source)
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    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)
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    In retrospect, Fire Extinguisher should've gotten two to the body and one to the head.†  (source)
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