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in ret·ro·spect
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in retrospectadverb
Looking back on the past or past events.
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in retrospect
Read the full text of the In Retrospect poem by Quaid-Uz-Zaman on the Poetry.com website.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of in retrospect in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of in retrospect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of in retrospect in a Sentence
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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.
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
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.
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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