Definition of "in retrospect" []

• Looking back on the past or past events. (adverb)

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• "Astonishing in retrospect is the limited participation of the uniformed military, as the president, in Bundys words, kept all of the Joint Chiefs but Max Taylor at a distance from ExComm."
• "Astronaut Bill Anders, who also flew the LLTV several times, wonders in retrospect why NASA did not think through its helicopter training for the astronauts more thoroughly: That was, in a sense, almost bad training, flying helicopters."
• "Buzz Aldrin, who was then preparing as backup pilot for Gemini IX, in retrospect has agreed that it is only with twenty-twenty hindsight that anyone can criticize anything that Neil did during the emergency."