How to Use retrospect in a Sentence

retrospect

noun

• 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
• Even leaving aside the disregard for the actors and crew, the message, in retrospect, began to seem self-canceling.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024

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