retrospectively
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- adverb
- /ˌrɛtrəˈspɛktɪvli/
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retrospectivamente
- The historian wrote about the events retrospectively, providing valuable insights into how they shaped the community.
- retrospectively reviewed
- retrospectively evaluated
- retrospectively analyzed
It's something that's applied to them retrospectively by later authors.
- It's something that's applied to them retrospectively by later authors.
- What we now retrospectively would call autism also went up by about fourfold.
- And I realized retrospectively that porn is the work of the devil and it will snatch your soul and it will kill your relationships.
- Actually, in retrospectively, I've decided this.
- And then there has retrospectively been a story told by the girl about why she did the thing.
- So, you know, it, it started to make sense many years later, you know, retrospectively, but that still doesn't it still doesn't heal any of those wounds.
Examples
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And then there has retrospectively been a story told by the girl about why she did the thing.
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The patients' medical records were also retrospectively reviewed for details regarding specific diagnoses and operative management.
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I'd like to look retrospectively at your kind of journey as a whole.
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What are the specific data points that you looked at retrospectively that told you this system is unstable?
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Negative ST during sport performance was assessed retrospectively after the conclusion of the competition.
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What we now retrospectively would call autism also went up by about fourfold.
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In the present study, information was gathered retrospectively from the youth counselors.
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Although the interviews were conducted retrospectively, the participants' recall of the emotional nature of this experience was extensive.
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Hospital discharge data were used to supplement and retrospectively evaluate the completeness of the active physician-based reporting system.
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All tumors excised from the face over a five-year period (2002 to 2006) were retrospectively reviewed.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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About events or facts from the past
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To think about something after it happened and understand it better
How Reflective
Surface Forms
Morphology
retrospectively = retrospective (transparent) = retrospect + ive + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the clear adjective 'retrospective', yielding 'in a retrospective manner'.
Etymology
The word retrospectively comes from two parts: retro- meaning 'back' and spect meaning 'to look', like in inspect ('to look closely'). So retrospectively means 'looking back' or doing something about events after they have happened.