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hindsight

[hahynd-sahyt] / ˈhaɪndˌsaɪt /


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Looking back, with hindsight, Overton - nicknamed Dell - thinks Uden did start to become controlling.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

People have different views of it today, but everything is different in hindsight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Twenty years later, I have no regrets about any of that, but plenty of hindsight.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Only in hindsight will we know whether foreign capital helped drive the semiconductor surge this spring and summer.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026

It is quite another to condemn all use of hindsight and to insist that the past should only be presented ‘in its own terms’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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