hindsight

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But they were important component parts of it, and in hindsight, they told us something important: that women were showing up, online and off, advocating for themselves and each other.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

In hindsight, one can wonder if these choices were wise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In hindsight, Gough said, he didn’t raise prices as much or as fast as he should have.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

“In hindsight I would rather we’d never have gone,” Atkinson told me.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 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