retrospect

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What makes the situation amusing as a retrospect is the fact that we were traveling on third-class military passes, as befitted our rank as élčve-pilotes and soldiers of the deuxičme classe To our great discomfiture, a couple of poilus volunteered their services in putting our belongings aboard the train.

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  1. noun A review, survey, or contemplation of things in the past.
  2. intransitive verb To contemplate the past.
  3. intransitive verb To refer back.
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  • In retrospect, there's probably nothing SGI could have done to stanch the downward slide of the standalone graphics workstation. —  InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
  • In retrospect, the entire affair seems just as weird now as it did then. —  Royals Review
  • It's only in retrospect -- when someone else has patented the concept -- that people start to realize that they wish they had some sort of record of the obvious ideas they had or things they did years before the patent was filed. —  Techdirt
  • In retrospect, her effort comes off as an attempt to grease her own senatorial skids. —  Latest Articles
  • In retrospect, the show served as a vehicle for Griffith to subtly preach his message of knowing right from wrong to his TV audience. —  American Profile
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  1. From Latin *retrōspectus, past participle of retrōspicere, to look back at : retrō-, retro- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin retrospectus, past participle (not used) of retrospicere, look back, from retro, backward, + specere, look: see spectacle.
  2. = Portuguese retrospecto, from Latin as if *retrospectus, from retrospicere, past participle retrospectus (not used), look back: see retrospect, v.
 

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