retrospect
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“The thought that scholars would surely wish to explore these questions once the war had ended was increasingly on my mind,” McNamara wrote in his 1995 book, “In Retrospect, The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2023
Mr Horner is among those who refer to the unrest as a rebellion, titling his class The 1967 Rebellion: Retrospect and Prospect.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2017
Retrospect has established Halloween, 1997, as the party to end all parties.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2016
Retrospect is likely to find these claims unimpressive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2015
Retrospect, ret′rō-spekt, or rē′-, n. a looking back: a contemplation of the past: the past.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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