hindsight
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Now, there’s a question of hindsight versus foresight.
From Slate • May 5, 2026
That pullback doesn’t look so strange in hindsight.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
In hindsight, he said, the story of Rico, a teenager trying to measure up to the demands of fatherhood while being ill-equipped and lacking maturity to navigate the situation constructively, carried personal undertones.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
This wouldn’t be the first time a bubbling threat that will be obvious in hindsight was underestimated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 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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