hindsight
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈhaɪndˌsaɪt/
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retrospectiva
- With the benefit of hindsight, I realize I should have saved more money for emergencies.
- only in hindsight
- benefit of hindsight
- wisdom of hindsight
And of course, you know, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
- And of course, you know, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
- You can't use hindsight to tell what people should have felt.
- And that's the problem with hindsight, of course it would have, but it wasn't.
- So yeah, hindsight is an incredible thing.
- So first thing is to give some hindsight.
- So So what happened was at the time, again, this is hindsight, right?
- And I only realized that discontent with hindsight.
- Yeah, hindsight is a beautiful thing.
- And there were things that happened that in the clarity of hindsight, I can see were just very bad, right?
- And some of these people made decisions which seemed in the hindsight to be OK, which really proved out to be costly.
- And instead they affirmed it that that they thought with all of this years of hindsight now looking back, they thought it was a valid mystical experience.
- So in a sense, the first examples of what we might with retrospect, with hindsight regard as algebra was probably Babylonian.
Examples
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Looking back at it with hindsight, I like that approach a lot.
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Yeah, hindsight is a beautiful thing.
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And of course, you know, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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So with the benefit of hindsight, let me say how it should have happened.
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Although, in hindsight, I wish I missed my first wedding.
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In hindsight, not one of their better decisions.
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In hindsight, I suspect I made a poor career choice.
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In hindsight, I realize it was wrong to interfere without talking to you first.
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It's obvious that we overlooked this problem, but with twenty-twenty hindsight, I think we ought to pay attention to it.
Fiction book (1999) -
With the benefit of hindsight, the year 1995 stands out as the beginning of Canada's historic turnaround.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
A clear understanding of what happened only after the event
Idioms
Compounds
- Slang
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8.9
A person who says what should have been done after they know what happened
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hindsight comes from the old parts hind meaning 'back' and sight meaning 'seeing'. So hindsight is like 'seeing' something after it happened, which is why we understand events better only later.