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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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    In retrospect, that was probably not the line to lead with.†  (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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    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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    Chapter 15 A Retrospection It was the end of November and Holmes and I sat, upon a raw and foggy night, on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting-room in Baker Street.†  (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, using my fingers to spread the resin wasn't the best plan.†  (source)
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