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"learn retrospectively" is a perfectly acceptable phrase and can be used in written English
It simply means to acquire knowledge from the past, based on previous experience. For example: "The instructor encouraged the students to learn retrospectively, using their prior successes and failures as a guide for future endeavors."
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We learn retrospectively of a Nietzschean motive for the crime (to be an "Ubermensch"), but, as usual, this is derivative of Dostoevsky and not properly worked through.
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After Rey kills himself -- we retrospectively learn that he has driven to Manhattan and shot himself in the apartment of an ex-wife -- Lauren returns to their rented house to mourn and grieve in solitude.
Higher species commonly learn novel behaviors by evaluating retrospectively whether actions have yielded desirable outcomes.
Higher animals, including humans, commonly learn novel behaviors via trial and error, by evaluating retrospectively whether an action performed under certain stimulus conditions yielded desirable outcomes.
Further practice-based research, perhaps using historical data to retrospectively construct a control group, is necessary to confirm results and learn more about the impact of population-wide disease management.
In this study, TRACEr was used predictively and retrospectively, looking forward to pre-empt potential problems and looking back to learn from experience.
His music teacher, we learn, was the go-between for the love letters his father received from the woman who became his second wife, and his son was enlisted to deliver them; he retrospectively marvels at this.
Learn, learn, learn.
What we learned is that people thinking retrospectively about their lives regret working too much and expressing their feelings too little.
The analysis was conducted post hoc, retrospectively reflecting upon what had been learned, rather than prospectively following a framework for analysis at each step.
We see this, retrospectively, in the rush to invade Iraq.
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