How to Use retrospect in a Sentence

retrospect

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  • In retrospect, Ballmer set the stage for a stunning comeback in the decades since.
    — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2024
  • But in retrospect, 27 points would have been enough at least send the game to overtime.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
  • In retrospect, staying with BOMP! would have been the move.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 9 May 2023
  • In retrospect, this was a failing of the system, not Davis.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2022
  • In retrospect, that was a red flag that things might have been a bit too intense.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Yet in retrospect, Ratzinger was the obvious choice, the front-runner from the start.
    — Henry Chudeputy News Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Maybe our own era will look better in retrospect, when all the dross is cleared away.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2023
  • This play seems to be taking place in the present tense, but also in retrospect, through Sofi’s point of view.
    — Liz Appel, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But who knows, maybe in 40 years this will look better in retrospect, too.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • In retrospect, Krieps thinks that spending so much time in a corset was a mistake.
    — Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • In retrospect, not the best, but that's my silver lining.
    — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023
  • In retrospect, there were people on their side and mine that were worried that Def Jam wouldn’t know what to do with me.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • Enter Email Sign Up In retrospect, the review should have set off alarm bells.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
  • In retrospect, while her team had been keen to avoid the subject, there were hints that something was brewing.
    — Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2024
  • One of the key markers of Web 2.0, in retrospect, was not the adoption of mobile, though that is certainly part of it.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 22 July 2023
  • But in retrospect, the second-year player was considered a project when the Ravens drafted him in the first round.
    — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In retrospect, that time was also tinged with hints of darkness.
    — Anthony Malone, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In retrospect, the adults knew sooner or later, the odds would even out, and my red and white Daredevle lure would get bit.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Has there been a conscious strategy, even in retrospect for rolling all of this out?
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • In retrospect, how was Frye going to end up anyplace else?
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In retrospect, the rise and fall of Mr. Feinstein could have been scripted for Off Broadway.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In retrospect, the source told me, the car must have been miscategorized.
    — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • In retrospect, maybe this youngish man was still figuring it out.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Loosely based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft, the film is narrated in retrospect from the confines of a padded room.
    — Zachary Barnes, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In retrospect, of course, Chuck was right about everything.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • In retrospect, the dissent on display in 1976 played a large part in bringing about policies that gave rise to greater openness in the decade that followed.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In retrospect, this choice — made because of a dearth of options — only roiled his bubbling rage.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Clare wanted her mom to return it and get her something nicer, and that was the last present her mom had ever given her in retrospect.
    — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Yet in retrospect it’s fair to wonder whether the resilience finally ran its course.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2023
  • In retrospect, her death is a textbook case of colchicine poisoning.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023

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