hindsight
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“In hindsight, that caution looks less like discipline and more like underestimating how fast demand would arrive,” the OpenAI memo said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
“In hindsight, what this has done for our community, I am truly sorry, what it’s done to my family, my wife, my children.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
It almost seems hard to believe in hindsight, but Wall Street economists saw a recession as a near-certainty after the previous oil price spike in 2022.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
In hindsight, was it a good thing that he had to wait another year to get his hands on the ultimate prize?
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
With the benefit of hindsight, surely we can see that piecemeal policy reform or litigation alone would have been a futile approach to dismantling Jim Crow segregation.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing hindsight
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Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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