Retrospective
adjective
Looking back or dealing with past events or situations.
They held a retrospective meeting to discuss what went wrong in the project.
Often appears as...
- retrospective study
- retrospective analysis
noun
A type of art exhibit or performance that displays an artist's work from over a period of time.
The museum is presenting a retrospective of Picasso's work.
Often appears as...
- artist's retrospective
- film retrospective
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Academic
adjective
Applying to the past, having effect from a past date.
The new tax increase is retrospective and will apply to last year's earnings as well.
Often appears as...
- retrospective law
- retrospective effect
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Legal
adjective
Looking back or dealing with past events or situations.
They held a retrospective meeting to discuss what went wrong in the project.
Often appears as...
- retrospective study
- retrospective analysis
noun
A type of art exhibit or performance that displays an artist's work from over a period of time.
The museum is presenting a retrospective of Picasso's work.
Often appears as...
- artist's retrospective
- film retrospective
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Applying to the past, having effect from a past date.
The new tax increase is retrospective and will apply to last year's earnings as well.
Often appears as...
- retrospective law
- retrospective effect
Usage tips
Legal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Past Reflection
Used when thinking about the past to understand the present or future.
The team's retrospective analysis helped improve current strategies.
Pro Tip 2/3Event Evaluation
It often describes a meeting or process focusing on past performance.
At the retrospective meeting, the whole project was evaluated.
Pro Tip 3/3Past Events Focus
Highlights specific events or periods from the past, not general history.
A retrospective study focused on the 2008 financial crisis.
Compare with
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Heather Brooke: My...
and then they tried to retrospectively change the law so that it would no longer apply to them. The transparency law they'd passed earlier that applied to everybody else, they tried to keep it so it didn't apply to them. What they hadn't counted on was digitization, because that meant that all those paper receipts
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The beauty of data...
and since then, that fear has been remembered by the media and echoes through the group mind gradually through the year. You have retrospectives, anniversaries, court cases, even copy-cat shootings, all pushing that fear into the agenda. And there's another pattern here as well. Can you spot it?
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The pharmacy of the...
Let's take a look. They're actually a little concerning at the moment. Now, it's not just my real-time vitals that can be seen by my medical team or myself, it could be my retrospective data, and again, that'd be used to modify dosing and medication going forward.
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Robyn Stein DeLuca: The...
Overall, the weaknesses in the methods of research on PMS have been considerable. First, many studies asked women to report their symptoms retrospectively, looking to the past and relying on memory, which is known to inflate reporting of PMS
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What the world can learn...
as the earliest example that they can find based on symptoms and based on retroactive diagnosis for a COVID-19 case. So in effect, there were several weeks before the acknowledgment to the World Health Organization that that was going on,
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The beauty of data...
retrospectives anniversaries court cases even copycat shootings all pushing that fear into the agenda and there's another pattern here as well can you spot it see that gap there there's a gap and it affects all the other stories why is
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Time is memory and you...
gets a little complicated because it's exemplified in the story of my labor and birth how we feel time passing in the moment is different from how we retrospectively remember time and the interesting finding is that our
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Pavan Sukhdev: Put a...
and placed a ban on felling. A retrospective on 40 years shows that if we had accounted for these costs -- the cost of loss of topsoil, the cost of loss of waterways, the lost productivity, the loss to local communities
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Sarah Lewis: Embrace the...
on a retrospective of painter Elizabeth Murray. I learned so much from her. After the curator Robert Storr selected all the paintings from her lifetime body of work, I loved looking at the paintings from the 1970s.
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Coming Home – Ep. 4 PIPE...
I didn't think, I didn't even put it in retrospective or just, I, Girl, you know, I didn't think nothin' about it. You have shown a lotta courage, you help a lotta people, you nurture people and I think
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Heather Brooke: My...
and then they tried to retrospectively change the law so that it would no longer apply to them. The transparency law they'd passed earlier that applied to everybody else, they tried to keep it so it didn't apply to them. What they hadn't counted on was digitization, because that meant that all those paper receipts
Video examples
The beauty of data...
and since then, that fear has been remembered by the media and echoes through the group mind gradually through the year. You have retrospectives, anniversaries, court cases, even copy-cat shootings, all pushing that fear into the agenda. And there's another pattern here as well. Can you spot it?
Video examples
The pharmacy of the...
Let's take a look. They're actually a little concerning at the moment. Now, it's not just my real-time vitals that can be seen by my medical team or myself, it could be my retrospective data, and again, that'd be used to modify dosing and medication going forward.
Video examples
Robyn Stein DeLuca: The...
Overall, the weaknesses in the methods of research on PMS have been considerable. First, many studies asked women to report their symptoms retrospectively, looking to the past and relying on memory, which is known to inflate reporting of PMS
Video examples
What the world can learn...
as the earliest example that they can find based on symptoms and based on retroactive diagnosis for a COVID-19 case. So in effect, there were several weeks before the acknowledgment to the World Health Organization that that was going on,
Video examples
The beauty of data...
retrospectives anniversaries court cases even copycat shootings all pushing that fear into the agenda and there's another pattern here as well can you spot it see that gap there there's a gap and it affects all the other stories why is
Video examples
Time is memory and you...
gets a little complicated because it's exemplified in the story of my labor and birth how we feel time passing in the moment is different from how we retrospectively remember time and the interesting finding is that our
Video examples
Pavan Sukhdev: Put a...
and placed a ban on felling. A retrospective on 40 years shows that if we had accounted for these costs -- the cost of loss of topsoil, the cost of loss of waterways, the lost productivity, the loss to local communities
Video examples
Sarah Lewis: Embrace the...
on a retrospective of painter Elizabeth Murray. I learned so much from her. After the curator Robert Storr selected all the paintings from her lifetime body of work, I loved looking at the paintings from the 1970s.
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Coming Home – Ep. 4 PIPE...
I didn't think, I didn't even put it in retrospective or just, I, Girl, you know, I didn't think nothin' about it. You have shown a lotta courage, you help a lotta people, you nurture people and I think
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Russell Brand
English Comedian
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.
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George Saunders
American Writer
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.
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Hugh Laurie
British Actor
I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.
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Guy Gavriel Kay
Canadian Author
It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it's lived has a far more complex shape.
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David Moyes
Scottish Coach
I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Egyptian Public Servant
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
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Gary Bettman
American Businessman
I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.
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Robert Peel
English Leader
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
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Robert Menzies
Australian Statesman
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
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Morgan Saylor
American Actress
There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.
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Russell Brand
English Comedian
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.
Quote examples
George Saunders
American Writer
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.
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Hugh Laurie
British Actor
I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.
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Guy Gavriel Kay
Canadian Author
It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it's lived has a far more complex shape.
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David Moyes
Scottish Coach
I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Egyptian Public Servant
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
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Gary Bettman
American Businessman
I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.
Quote examples
Robert Peel
English Leader
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
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Robert Menzies
Australian Statesman
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
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Morgan Saylor
American Actress
There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.
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