How to Use retrospect in a Sentence
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In retrospect there was much more to it.
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Selena Fragassi,
SPIN,
2 Apr. 2026
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Any thoughts on that in retrospect?
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Frank Digiacomo,
Billboard,
4 Aug. 2025
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If the whale dies at sea, their work may seem pointless in retrospect.
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Jessica Camille Aguirre,
New Yorker,
2 May 2026
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But in retrospect, the entire process was so much fun.
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Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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In retrospect, that was a red flag that things might have been a bit too intense.
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Michelle Ruiz,
Vogue,
8 Aug. 2022
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In retrospect, of course, all of these moves look like no-brainers.
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Mike Finger,
San Antonio Express-News,
21 Mar. 2026
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And in retrospect, that kind of was my downfall.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Dec. 2025
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Maybe our own era will look better in retrospect, when all the dross is cleared away.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
23 Oct. 2023
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Which, in retrospect, means the spell was working.
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Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
19 June 2026
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There will be questions asked in retrospect.
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Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 2025
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In retrospect, that time was also tinged with hints of darkness.
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Anthony Malone,
Rolling Stone,
1 Sep. 2023
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Risk is assessed in retrospect rather than in real time.
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Joseph Andrew,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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In retrospect, maybe this youngish man was still figuring it out.
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Monica Hesse,
Washington Post,
15 Sep. 2022
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But who knows, maybe in 40 years this will look better in retrospect, too.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
12 Aug. 2022
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But in retrospect, 27 points would have been enough at least send the game to overtime.
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Kevin Reynolds,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
29 Oct. 2022
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Which, in retrospect, was the problem.
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Jeffrey Wessler,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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But in retrospect, the moment has come to mean so much more than just a great performance.
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Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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Has there been a conscious strategy, even in retrospect for rolling all of this out?
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Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2023
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In retrospect, Krieps thinks that spending so much time in a corset was a mistake.
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Fergus McIntosh,
The New Yorker,
9 Jan. 2023
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In retrospect, Ballmer set the stage for a stunning comeback in the decades since.
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Sunny Nagpaul,
Fortune,
24 Mar. 2024
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But an uninspired name can feel, in retrospect, like an early warning sign.
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Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Jan. 2024
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The flaws in this system were obvious enough, at least in retrospect.
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Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
11 Jan. 2026
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In retrospect, while her team had been keen to avoid the subject, there were hints that something was brewing.
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Amel Mukhtar,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2024
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In retrospect, this sounds like foreshadowing … or at least a good omen.
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Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
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In retrospect, her death is a textbook case of colchicine poisoning.
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Beth Mole,
Ars Technica,
27 Oct. 2023
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Siegal, in retrospect, sees how this was all a terrible idea.
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Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Mar. 2026
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The facts are almost absurd in retrospect.
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Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Apr. 2026
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A week of life and going through something grueling isn’t all that bad in retrospect.
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Abigail Wise,
Outside,
17 Nov. 2025
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This play seems to be taking place in the present tense, but also in retrospect, through Sofi’s point of view.
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Liz Appel,
Vogue,
8 Sep. 2023
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In retrospect, this loss of wealth taught him to appreciate life more fully.
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John Baldoni,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2024
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In retrospect, that was a dead end.
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Maria Pasquini,
PEOPLE,
1 June 2026
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In retrospect, not a good idea.
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Max Tani,
semafor.com,
29 Dec. 2025
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In retrospect, those were the days.
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Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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In retrospect, that all sounds crazy.
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Justin Wingerter,
Denver Post,
16 Sep. 2025
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This makes those moments feel longer in retrospect.
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Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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In retrospect, the logic may be clear.
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Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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In retrospect, that arc may define the season as much as any single win.
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Clayton Davis,
Variety,
16 Mar. 2026
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Yet the pattern is blessed only in retrospect.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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In retrospect, maybe the protein Pop-Tarts were a bit much.
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Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
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Bill Clinton, in ways that in retrospect look ridiculous, drove the right crazy.
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David Remnick,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Looked at in retrospect, what an obvious film to greenlight.
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John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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In retrospect, there were some glaring missteps in that section.
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Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2026
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In retrospect, the taxpayer should have just paid the back taxes and penalties and moved on.
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Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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Gudbranson, in retrospect, should have said no.
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Fluto Shinzawa,
New York Times,
30 Mar. 2026
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Gout follows rules, yes, but often only in retrospect.
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Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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Which, in retrospect, feels like the perfect origin story for the movie itself.
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Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2026
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In retrospect, those fears were overstated.
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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And, in retrospect, more consistency on the field.
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Kansas City Star,
31 Jan. 2026
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In retrospect, the boom years of narrative podcasting were always a kind of dream.
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Eric Benson,
Rolling Stone,
18 Aug. 2025
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What made that scene so memorable occurred only in retrospect.
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Eric Boodman,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2026
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In retrospect people hate Darvish, but at the time of the trade most Dodger fans were ecstatic.
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Los Angeles Times,
1 Aug. 2019
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In retrospect, there should have been many more roles for Avery following the film's success.
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Diedre Johnson,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Dec. 2025
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At the time, this may have felt like a setback, but in retrospect … Disney dodged a real mortar shell with that one.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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In retrospect, Read says the decision to publish the story was rushed.
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Frank Digiacomo,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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In retrospect, my earnest lessons seem very theoretical, very quaint.
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Sayantani Dasgupta
february 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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In retrospect, this obsession had to do with reaching to meet something, some other way of seeing.
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Jenny Odell,
Longreads,
2 June 2026
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In retrospect, of course, that’s proven something of an understatement.
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Gregg Kilday,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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In retrospect, the gaps are often obvious.
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Lee Blakemore,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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In retrospect, the high stakes arguably heighten the excitement of seeing how these writers dared and got away with it.
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Trish Bendix
august 21,
Literary Hub,
21 Aug. 2025
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In retrospect, the decision feels less like a risk and more like a necessary element.
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Katharina Schwarze,
Architectural Digest,
23 May 2026
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