in retrospect
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- When looked back upon as a past event; as can be seen now, but not at the time.
- Trying to expand the business into the Middle East was doomed to failure. In retrospect, we shouldn't have bothered.
- German: rückblickend, zurückblickend
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