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retrospect
in
Educated, by Tara Westover
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In retrospect, I see that this was my education, the one that would matter: the hours I spent sitting at a borrowed desk, struggling to parse narrow strands of Mormon doctrine in mimicry of a brother who'd deserted me.†
p. 62.9

retrospect = to review with hindsight
No one had believed it when Dad said yes, but in retrospect it was entirely characteristic for my father to move, in the space of a day, from no TV or radio to full-blown cable.†
p. 90.6
In retrospect I'm sure he meant this literally, that he was asking how he could help, but my ears, solitary and suspicious, heard something else: What do you expect me to do?†
p. 169.3
In retrospect, this was probably the most important moment of our friendship, the moment I could have done one thing, the better thing, and I did something else.†
p. 226.1
It occurs to me in retrospect that someone might have told Professor Steinberg about me, perhaps Dr. Kerry.†
p. 239.1 *

Definitions:

(1) (retrospect as in: in retrospect, it is clear...)
to review with hindsight (with the understanding that comes after seeing how things turned out)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)