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to hindsight
noun
Realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred
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Perhaps that's a question best left to hindsight.
Thanks to hindsight, it is not difficult now to see that some measure to stop the drain of manpower — perhaps the erection of a wall — was imminent.
But after shaking hands with his former teammates and coaches and scoring a game-high 21 points, it was clear he had savored the victory, just as he was hanging on to hindsight.
Essentially a long, fascinating chat with Robert S. McNamara, who was secretary of defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, the film, a paean to hindsight, is notable for its rare honesty.
Yet even without resorting to hindsight, the Bush administration can be faulted for not making more of an effort to determine whether a satisfactory resolution of the weapons issue might have been achieved without war.
It is disturbing listening, and made all the more so thanks to hindsight: Michel died the following year, after which her parents and two priests were convicted of negligent homicide.
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One of the many successful aspects of the film was that it was able to use hindsight to treat historical moments with respect, and wasn't afraid to deal with big issues such as Civil Rights and war.
How to tell hindsight to get the hell out?
But he refused to apply hindsight to the invasion of Iraq.
And unlike many revivalists, Jet sees no need to add hindsight to its music.
She aims to blindfold hindsight and to recover not just external events but the way people perceived them at the time.
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