retrospection

retrospect | American Dictionary

retrospect
noun
us/ˈre·trəˌspekt/
an act of thinking about the past:
In retrospect, (= thinking about the past now) I think their marriage was doomed from the beginning.

Examples of retrospect

retrospect
Both highlighted the intellectual capacities and famous works of the celebrated persons and then affirmed these observations in retrospect by looking at the brain.
Most of what was learned was, in retrospect, unsurprising.
In retrospect, one should know better than to believe that archives can provide a ready answer to every historical question.
In retrospect, however, the anatomy could be distinguished on preoperative echocardiograms.
There is also a suggestion that it is only in retrospect that the authenticity of an emotional attachment can be judged.
What evidence can be brought to bear, and what are the chances, in retrospect?
Only in retrospect did another view dawn on him - one that could reconcile his most unreconciled ending as historical necessity.
These twin constraints seriously limited war-time efforts to maximize palm oil production for export and, in retrospect, failure was inevitable.
In retrospect, he is proud to have avoided attributing a unidirectional impact of science on society or of social and economic forces on science.
In retrospect, the patient should have been submitted to surgery several months earlier.
In retrospect, the problem was probably detected late as a consequence of preoccupation with retrieval of the embolized device.
Our experimental design was not, in retrospect, ideal with respect to the high/low diversity comparison.
In retrospect, we would do well to consider the scars he received and not simply the battle he won.
In retrospect, however, the cumulative impact of growth on output is a fact.
Its final product is always death, an inevitability that is usually noticed only in retrospect.
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