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retrospect
noun as in afterthought
Strongest match
Example Sentences
I think that in retrospect I should have asked that the piece be held.
Where there really is … The vertical nature of a lot of places, including the shop that I ran, I find to be, in retrospect, a big mistake, because it makes people feel like that they either have to rise up or leave.
He also said that “in retrospect” it was a mistake to partner with the group.
In retrospect, the pandemic not only fueled PC market demand but also created opportunities that resulted in a market expansion.
It seems, in retrospect, almost inevitable that I would think of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales.
To say this is not to ignore its radical character, especially in retrospect.
“In retrospect, I think we were both surprised,” recalled Singh.
In retrospect, 2009 and 2010 were halcyon days in the Middle East, now that we seem just one horseman short of an apocalypse.
“Only in retrospect did we appreciate our good fortune in being part of a utopian experiment in American journalism,” she writes.
He struck many people there, at the time, not in retrospect, as arrogant and cold.
The retrospect will reveal to them a busy, thronging life underlying the serenity of history.
It is only in the retrospect that we have been able to grasp something of the effectual case against us.
He actually enjoyed in retrospect the humiliation of the man, and his heart beat with the excitement of hearing more.
An impartial retrospect will not permit a commendation of the plan.
It was seen plainly in retrospect; he had not noticed it much at the time.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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