retrospective
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Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis using electronic health records.
From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026
“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
The retrospective, including several other works loaned from other countries, features paintings, sculptures and drawings.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
His bronze medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympics was only awarded five years later because of retrospective doping bans.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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