in retrospect

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in retrospect

  1. When looked back upon as a past event; as can be seen now, but not at the time.
    Synonym: in hindsight
    Near-synonym: retrospectively
    Trying to expand the business into the Middle East was doomed to failure. In retrospect, we shouldn't have bothered.

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