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What does in retrospect mean?

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Prepositional phrase
  1. When looked back upon as a past event; as can be seen now, but not at the time.
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A chance remark by trainer Peter Niven a few weeks ago worried me then, and concerns me even more in retrospect.
But in retrospect that was because my uncle and cousin epitomise disorganisation and, much as I love them, laziness.
And in retrospect, Beverly was the first theatrical embodiment of an Essex Girl, a phenomenon that flowered more than a decade later.
You wonder if perhaps, in retrospect, he wished he had stayed in the wings.
It appears in retrospect that we simply did not have enough troops on the ground at that time to guard those ammunition dumps.
I'm sure, in retrospect, that it was a case of remembering the hits and forgetting the misses.

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