retrospective
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“While a memoir or formal autobiography aims to offer a retrospective story, the diary typically doesn’t, or can’t, because it is written from the middle of an unfolding life.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and now Raphael: New York's prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicating a retrospective to the third of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
"Our retrospective study findings warrant further testing in larger populations, particularly in people before they show symptoms," Zaret said.
From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026
This retrospective cohort study included 7,938 adults with overweight or obesity in Ohio and Florida.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
Thereafter, as well as composing for all his subsequent films, Chaplin wrote and recorded retrospective scores for his earlier silent films, continuing to do so well into the 1970s.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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