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retrospective

[re-truh-spek-tiv] / ˌrɛ trəˈspɛk tɪv /
ADJECTIVE
backward-looking
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ADJECTIVE
concerned with past
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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

It was sold at auction by Christie's in 2014 for more than £2.5m, but has now been loaned back to Tate Modern for its new retrospective, Tracey Emin: A Second Life.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Normally on display at Paris's Musee d'Orsay it has been lent to Vienna's Leopold Museum for the retrospective.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

When he heard about the retrospective, he offered.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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