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in ret·ro·spect

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  1. in retrospectadverb

    Looking back on the past or past events.

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    Read the full text of the In Retrospect poem by Quaid-Uz-Zaman on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of in retrospect in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of in retrospect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of in retrospect in a Sentence

  1. Malcolm Muggeridge:

    In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

  2. Douglas MacArthur:

    The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

  3. Gloria Steinem:

    Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

  4. Stefan Worrall:

    Earnings in Japan haven't been that bad, against very conservative guidance, which in retrospect was appropriate, i'm surprised there's been a failure to recognise more of the positives.

  5. Stefan Worrall:

    The market had clearly worked itself into a frenzy of expectations demanding that the BOJ take action, and in retrospect that looks like a misguided view that failed to recognise the dilemma that recent economic dynamics have presented for the BOJ.

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