hindsight
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"But policymakers would prefer to know about these things in advance rather than discovering them in hindsight."
From BBC • May 13, 2026
"Obviously, the financial terms, in hindsight, didn't work out very well."
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
“With the clarity of hindsight, we could have — and perhaps should have — stopped asset purchases sooner,” Powell said in a speech last year.
From MarketWatch • May 10, 2026
Imposing a duty to accelerate every promising alternative would force companies to revisit every strategic pause, every resource allocation, and every clinical decision through the distorting lens of hindsight.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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