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Hindsight

noun

Realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred

  • When you read "Seven Little Rabbits" at age 6 and read it again 15 years later, the hindsight you've developed in the time between will make you look at and think of the book very differently!

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'hindsight' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It refers to the understanding or perception of something after it has happened, especially when that understanding could have helped in the past. Example: In hindsight, I should have studied harder for the exam. (This means that the person realizes now, after the exam, that they should have studied harder in the past.).

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I've never done anything like this before and, in hindsight, I have realised it was a silly thing to do".

Last year's choice of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in hindsight seems a similar act of wishful thinking.

George told the commission on Tuesday that in hindsight some of the claims should not have been approved.

When Labour loses an election there is a tendency on the left to first indulge in the wisdom of hindsight, and then to project the party's failures eternally into the future.

Even the great years, he says, only tend to look great with the benefit of hindsight.

But, with the benefit of hindsight, there are consistency issues, he says.

Looking back on that night with the benefit of hindsight, one thing stands out: the single-mindedness of Ferguson.

In hindsight perhaps ringing Vinnie's wife would have been a bit more effective.

In hindsight the view is that certain things that should have been done were not done, and that is regrettable".

They also offer an insight into how traumatising the Kennedy assassinations were at the time – something we can almost obscure with hindsight, revisionism, and conspiracy theories.

Related: Four things we still don't know after Hillary Clinton's email press conference While taking questions from reporters, Clinton tried to stay on-message – she regretted using the single account in hindsight, she reiterated her eagerness for the public to read emails her team deemed official – but with every answer, it seemed, came more trouble.

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