hindsight
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Now, however, I am a senior citizen who can look at events with the benefit of perspective and hindsight, and thus I have decided to forgive Don Nelson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Maybe it was frustrating at the time. In hindsight, it doesn’t really matter. If you’re a good player, you’ll keep playing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
In hindsight it probably was a penalty - we probably did get it wrong - but we called it honestly.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
But in hindsight, I was optimizing for a travel lifestyle that I wasn’t really living, and I would have been better off picking a card that offered more of what I needed: free cash.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Given that this book relies in part on hindsight, many historians will feel justified in condemning it as an example of Whig history.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing hindsight
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Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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