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retrospective

adjective as in backward-looking

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adjective as in concerned with past

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Around the time of the event, Vogue published retrospective and historical content packages that were built out of previous galas, setting May 2020 up to be record-breaking month as well.

From Digiday

Let her do it again this week with Style Invitational Week 1415, the first of our two second-chance contests, covering the first half of the ones we did since last year’s retrospective.

Musa Mayer, Guston’s daughter and head of the Guston Foundation, said that the decision represents real progress and that she looks forward to celebrating the retrospective when it opens.

Last year, the Bauhaus’s 100th anniversary was celebrated with a host of exhibits, events and retrospectives around the world—and inspired a flurry of thoughtful writing about the movement.

From Fortune

Instead, retrospective evaluations correlated most closely to peak and end pain levels.

From Fortune

In 1980, a retrospective of the artist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York captivated Hockney.

To celebrate a retrospective box set, entitled Nothing Has Changed, Bowie has released a video for one of two new songs included.

“When Tibor died we did a retrospective of MCo., and the lamp was the last thing you saw,” she says.

Frank Gehry is enjoying a major moment: his retrospective is in full swing in Paris and his latest creation opens today.

Hopper (1882-1967), had his first major retrospective at the Whitney in 1964.

But statutes which merely alter the procedure, if they are in themselves good statutes, ought to be retrospective.

It is always to be remembered that retrospective legislation is bad in principle only when it affects the substantive law.

Statutes creating new crimes or increasing the punishment of old crimes ought in no case to be retrospective.

But the bill against Duncombe really was, what the bill against Fenwick was not, objectionable as a retrospective bill.

There was not a side nor retrospective glance to disturb the serenity of her large blue eyes.

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