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in retrospect

 and in hindsight

reconsidering the past with the knowledge one now has. In retrospect, I would have gone to a better college. David realized, in hindsight, that he should have finished school.

in retrospect

looking back on something that happened I think that, in retrospect, we were wrong to insist that she move to an apartment.

in retrospect

Looking backward, reflecting on the past. For example, In retrospect, he regarded his move as the best thing he'd ever done. This idiom employs retrospect in the sense of "a view of the past." [Second half of 1600s]

in retrospect

In looking back on or reviewing the past.