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in retrospect
Idioms and Phrases
Looking backward, reflecting on the past. For example, In retrospect, he regarded his move as the best thing he'd ever done . This idiom employs retrospect in the sense of “a view of the past.†[Second half of 1600s]Example Sentences
Gibson is convinced that, in the future, when we can see the present in retrospect, we will see that the current turmoil is actually business as usual.
In retrospect, I would’ve cheered, but I feel that might’ve interrupted the uncomfortable silence that fell upon the auditorium, maybe even sparked a citizen’s arrest, considering the scene's subject matter.
In retrospect, the heyday of YA coincided with the golden age of the CW, which always seemed to have a dozen adaptations of YA novels in development at any given moment.
One can reasonably argue, in retrospect, that Democrats should have taken Navarro’s arguments more seriously, while also acknowledging that his message was contaminated with too much paleocon weirdness.
In retrospect, can you blame them?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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