retrospective

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Campaigner Sherrie Smith, who founded Gypsy and Travellers Essex, pointed out that people felt they had no choice but to build plots unlawfully and then seek retrospective planning permission later.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

There can be no retrospective action as VAR has effectively made it obsolete in the Premier League.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Riz Ahmed stars in a contemporary ‘Hamlet,’ ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ is all grown up, the first American retrospective of Marcel Duchamp in 50 years, and more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 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

But historians are nevertheless able to evaluate related hypotheses by retrospective tests.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond